Species Murex (Murex) coppingeri Smith, 1884

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex coppingeri 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] [42, pl. 5, fig. A].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1882.12.6.9, Dundas Strait, Arafura Sea, 31 m.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 124 m

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [64]

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. [252, pl. 4, figs 4-6]

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] [45, figs 20, 70F, 77A]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [33, pl. 1, fig. 2]

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. 4]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [275] (Coppinger's 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