Species Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornucervi (Röding, 1798)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Purpura cornucervi Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [142].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, East Indish Sea in .
• Murex monodon Sowerby, G.B. (1st) 1825. A catalogue of the shells contained in the collection of the late Earl of Tankerville : arranged according to the Lamarckian conchological system: together with an appendix, containing descriptions of many new species. London : printed by E.J. Stirling for G.B. Sowerby vii, 92 pp. + appendix of xxiv pp. + coloured plates. [19].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, East Indish Sea , in .
• Murex aranea Kiener, L.C. 1843. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Ballière 130pp., 47 pls. [34] [pl. 36, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Indian Ocean.

 

Generic Combinations

• Chicoreus cornucervi (Röding, 1798). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [28, pl. 3, fig. 5]
• Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornucervi (Röding, 1798). —
  Fair, R.H. 1976. The Murex Book: An illustrated catalogue of Recent Muricidae (Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Ocenebrinae). Honolulu : Fair, R.H. 23 pls, 138 pp. [33, pl. 8, fig. 101]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand flats, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Among soft coral

 

General References

Eisenberg, J.M. 1981. A collector's guide to seashells of the world. New York : McGraw-Hill 239 pp. [89, pl. 71, fig. 3] (as Murex (Chicoreus) cornucervi)

Fair, R.H. 1976. The Murex Book: An illustrated catalogue of Recent Muricidae (Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Ocenebrinae). Honolulu : R. Fair 23 pls, 138 pp. [33, pl. 8, fig. 101]

Houart, R. 1992. The genus Chicoreus and related genera (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A 154: 1-188 [40, fig. 1]

Leehman, E.G. 1981. Big and beautiful. Hawaiian Shell News 29(7): 9 [9, text fig] (as Murex cornucervi)

Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J-P 2011. Fossil and recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks pp. 1-648, pls 182. [334, pl. 45, figs 1-5]

Shikama, T. 1963. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colour. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 1 pp. 1-154. [70, pl. 53, fig. 3] (as Murex (Euphyllon) cornucervi)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [28, pl. 3, fig. 5]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [86, pl. 58, fig. 5]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [140] (Stag Horn Murex, Toothed Murex)

Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Murex. pls 1-34 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [sp. 21] (as Murex monodon) (The Single Tooth Murex)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [136, pl. 137] (Monodon Murex)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	12-Oct-2011	ADDED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		29-Sep-2011	MODIFIED