Genus Muricopsis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882

Museums

Regional Maps

• Muricopsis Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, P. & Dollfus, G.E. 1882-1898. Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Paris : J.-B. Baillière.

  Type species:

   Murex blainvillii Payraudeau, 1826 by original designation.
• Murexsul Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's "Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca". Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 47: 417-497 [Date published 12 July 1915] [471].

  Type species:

   Murex octogonus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

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. [17]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [39]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	09-Mar-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		05-Oct-2011	MODIFIED