Species Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus (Lamarck, 1822)
Confused Murex, Curly Murex, Short-fronded Murex, The Allied Murex, The Small-Leaf Murex
- Murex microphyllus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. pp. 1-16 in Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [pl. 145, fig. 5].
Type data:
Lectotype GMNH 1099/22. - Murex poirieri Jousseaume, F. 1881. Diagnoses de mollusques nouveaux. Le Naturaliste 44: 349-350 [349].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP, New Caledonia. - Murex jousseaumei Poirier, J. 1883. Révision des Murex de Muséum. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 2 5: 13-128 [58, tab. 6, fig. 1a-1b].
Type data:
Lectotype MNHP, Probably New Caledonia. - Chicoreus akritos Radwin, G. & D'Atillio, A. 1976. Murex shells of the world, an illustrated guide to the Muricidae. Stanford : Stanford University Press 1-284, 32 pls, 192 text figs. [228, pl. 4, fig. 1].
Type data:
Holotype SDNHM 53173, under dead coral at low tide, off Keppel Islands, Keppel Bay, Queensland, Australia.
Generic Combinations
- Chicoreus microphyllus (Lamarck, 1822). —
Cernohorsky, W.O 1967. The Muricidae of Fiji (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Part 1. Subfamilies Muricinae and Tritonaliinae. Veliger 10(2): 111-132, pls 14,15 [120, pl. 14, fig. 10, text fig. 4] - Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus (Lamarck, 1822). —
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 [59, figs 13-19, 87-91, 133, 299-301, 309-323]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific, from Madagascar to Fiji
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, marine, rocks, subtidal.
General References
Cernohorsky, W.O 1967. The Muricidae of Fiji (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Part 1. Subfamilies Muricinae and Tritonaliinae. Veliger 10(2): 111-132, pls 14,15 [120, pl. 14, fig. 10, text fig. 4]
Fair, R.H. 1976. The Murex Book: An illustrated catalogue of Recent Muricidae (Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Ocenebrinae). Honolulu : R. Fair 23 pls, 138 pp. [58, pl. 7, fig. 87]
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 [59, figs 13-19, 87-91, 133, 299-301, 309-323] (as Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus)
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. [360, pl. 58, figs 1-9]
Smith, M. 1953. An illustrated catalog of the recent species of rock shells. Windermere : Tropical Laboratory pp. i-x, 1-34. [5, pl. 8, fig. 10] (as Murex (Chicoreus) microphyllus)
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [28, pl. 3, fig. 11]
Common Name References
Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [146, pl. 441] (Confused Murex, Short-fronded 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. 40] (The Small-Leaf Murex)
Reeve, L.A. 1846. Monograph of the genus Murex. pls 35-36 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [sp. 182] (as Murex affinis) (The Allied 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] (Curly 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 |