Species Pterynotus (Pterymarchia) tripterus (Born, 1778)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex tripterus Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp. [287].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pterynotus (Pterymarchia) tripterus (Born, 1778). —
  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. [426, pl. 91, figs 1-6]
• Pterynotus (Pterynotus) tripterus (Born, 1778). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [35, pl. 2, figs 11a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Indonesia to Fiji

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, muddy sand bottom, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Under coral rocks; to 200 m

 

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O 1967. The Muricidae of Fiji (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Part 1. Subfamilies Muricinae and Tritonaliinae. Veliger 10(2): 111-132, pls 14,15 [124, figs 14-15] (as Pterynous (Naquetia) tripterus)

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. [426, pl. 91, figs 1-6]

Middelfart, P. 1997. An illustrated checklist of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Andaman Sea, Thailand. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 17(2): 349-388 [359, pl. 2, fig. 9]

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 [216, 218]

Radwin, G. & D'Atillio, A. 1976. Murex shells of the world, an illustrated guide to the Muricidae. Stanford : Stanford University Press 1-284, 32 pls, 192 text figs. [60, pl. 9, fig. 12]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [35, pl. 2, figs 11a-b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [151] (Lace Murex)

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. [sp. 55] (The Three-sided Murex)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021		31-Oct-2011	MOVED
01-Jun-2021		12-Oct-2011	ADDED
		06-Oct-2011	MODIFIED