Subspecies Murex (Murex) brevispina macgillivrayi Dohrn, 1862

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex macgillivrayi Dohrn, H. 1862. Descriptions of new shells. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1862: 202-203 [203].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1971007, Lizard Island, Queensland.
• Murex (Tribulus) acanthodes Watson, R.B. 1883. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 16: 494-611 [599].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1887.2.9.522-3, off Albany Id., Cape York, Australia, 3-12 fathoms [6-22 m].

Generic Combinations

• Murex (Murex) brevispina macgillivrayi Dohrn, 1862. —
  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. [262, pl. 9, figs 8-11]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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

Continental shelf, continental slope, in sandy mud, marine, mud-silt, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 350 m

General References

Brazier, J. 1893. Catalogue of the marine shells of Australia and Tasmania. Part III. Gastropoda, Murex. Australian Museum Sydney, Catalogue 15:. 45-74 pp. [49]

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [27, pl. 47]

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. [262, pl. 9, figs 8-11]

Ponder, W.F. & Vokes, E.H. 1988. A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and recent species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Australian Museum 8: 1-160 [Date published 29 April] [65, figs 33, 67C, 72A, 74E]

Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34–116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487–508; explanation of plates pp. 657–659] [44]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [32, pl. 1, figs 3a-b]

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. [84, pl. 57, 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] (as Acupurpura macgillivaryi) (Macgillivray's Woodcock)

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [47] (Macgillivray's Murex)

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