Species Favartia (Favartia) confusa (Brazier, 1877)

• Murex (Ocinebra) confusa Brazier, J. 1877. List of marine shells, with descriptions of the new species collected during the 'Chevert' Expedition. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1(3): 169-181 [172].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.77183 dry, sandy mud, Torres Strait, Darnley Island, Queensland, Australia [9°34'58.8'S, 143°46'1.2'E].

Generic Combinations

• Favartia confusa (Brazier, 1877). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [37]

Distribution

States

Queensland

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

To 55 m

General References

Ponder, W.F. 1972. Notes on some Australian genera and species of the family Muricidae (Neogastropoda). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(3): 215-248 [230, pl. 22, fig. 5, text fig. 2: 20a-b]

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. [146] (incorrect genus for available name- Pterynotus instead of Murex (Ocinebra))

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [37]

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