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Species Chicoreus (Triplex) torrefactus (Sowerby, 1841)

Ruby Murex, The Rusty Murex, The Scorched Murex

 

Generic Combinations

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa to Fiji


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, coral reef, intertidal, marine, rock reef, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 200 m

 

General References

Fair, R.H. 1976. The Murex Book: An illustrated catalogue of Recent Muricidae (Muricinae, Muricopsinae, Ocenebrinae). Honolulu : R. Fair 23 pls, 138 pp. [81, pl. 8, fig. 103] (as Chicoreus (Chicoreus) torrefactus)

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 [55, figs 12, 94-97, 132, 160-162, 282-285, 296-297, 306-308]

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. [358, pl. 57, figs 1-15]

Middelfart, P. 1992. Early life stages of the muricid gastropods Chicoreus ramosus, C. torrefactus, and C. brunneus from Phuket Island, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 10: 113-122 [113, figs 2, 3B-5B (not C), 6A, 7B]

Middelfart, P. 1997. An illustrated checklist of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 17(2): 349-388 [356-357, pl. 2, figs 3-4]

Smith, M. 1953. An illustrated catalog of the recent species of rock shells. Windermere : Tropical Laboratory pp. i-x, 1-34. [6, pl. 6, fig. 17] (as Murex (Chicoreus) torrefactus)

Tan, K.S. & Chou, L.M. 2000. A Guide to Common Seashells of Singapore. Singapore : Singapore Science Centre 168 pp. [93]

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, figs 3, 4-4b]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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)
06-Oct-2011 MODIFIED