Species Murexsul planiliratus (Reeve, 1845)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex planiliratus Reeve, L.A. 1845. Monograph of the genus Murex. pls 1-34 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 3. [pl. 31, fig. 149].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Swan River.
• Murex fimbriatus Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [176] [junior homonym; not Murex fimbriatus Lightfoot, 1876 nor Murex fimbriatus Brocchi, 1814].
• Fusus pallidus Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1-46. [Apr. 1843]. [26] [junior homonym; not Fusus pallidus Broderip, 1832].
• Murex pumilus Angas, G.F. 1865. On the marine molluscan fauna of the Province of South Australia, with a list of all the species known up to the present time, together with remarks on their habitats and distribution, etc. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 155-"180" (=190) [158].
• Murex (Pseudomurex) polypleurus Brazier, J. 1894. A new Murex from South Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 8(2): 179-180 [179].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, east side St. Vincent's Gulf.

 

Generic Combinations

• Muricopsis planilirata (Reeve, 1845). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [40, pl. 6, figs 17a-b]
• Murexsul planilirata (Reeve, 1845).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sublittoral, under stones.

 

General References

Houart, R. 2009. Murexsul planiliratus (Reeve, 1845). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=407877 (Accessed on 2017-06-20)

Kendrick, A.J. & Rule, M.J. 2014. An annotated checklist of intertidal reef invertebrates from Marmion and Shoalwater Islands marine parks. Conservation Science Western Australia 9(2): 201-213

Merle, D. & Houart, R. 2003. Ontogenetic changes of the spiral cords as keys innovation of the muricid sculptural patterns: the example of the Muricopsis–Murexsul lineages (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae). Comptes Rendus Palevol. 2 (6-7): 547-561.

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 [240, pl. 22, fig. 9, text fig. 3: 27]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [40, pl. 6, figs 17a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [80] (Fimbriate Murex)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	20-Jun-2017	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		06-Oct-2011	MODIFIED