Genus Hexaplex Perry, 1810

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hexaplex Perry, G. 1810. Arcana; or The Museum of Natural History: containing the most recent discovered objects. London : George Smeeton 84 pls, 251 (unnumbered). [sgn. M7] [Made available by short diagnosis; no originally included species. Exaplex [Férussac, 1820, Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d'Histoire Naturelle et des Arts, 90: 284] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. Earlier than Iredale, Jousseaume, 1879, Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, (1879): 349, had designated Murex cichoreus Gmelin as type species, but this nominal species was not included by Perry (1811)].

  Type species:

   Hexaplex foliacea Perry, 1811 by subsequent designation (Iredale, 1915, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute, 47: 469).
• Bassiella Wenz, 1941 [Handbuch der Paläozoologie, 6(1): 1089; Established as a substitute name for Bassia Jousseaume, 1880, non Quoy & Gaimard, 1834].

  Type species:

   Murex stainforthi Reeve, 1843 by original designation (by typification of replaced name).

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32)

General References

Houart, R. 1994. Illustrated Catalogue of Recent Species of Muricidae named since 1971. Weisbaden, Germany : Verlag Christa Hemmen pp. 1-179, pl. 28. [13]

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. [77-80, pls 31-32]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [31]

 

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