Species Pterynotus (Pterynotus) elongatus (Lightfoot, 1786)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex elongatus Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp. [65, no. 1479].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Batavia (=Java), Indonesia.
• Murex clavus Kiener, L.C. 1842. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Ballière Vol. 7 pp. 1-130. [111, pl. 37, fig. 2] [junior homonym; not Murex clavus Michelotti, 1841].

 

Generic Combinations

• Pterynotus (Pterynotus) elongatus (Lightfoot, 1786). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [35, pl. 2, fig. 8]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Among rocks, coral, marine, sand.

 

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 [123, pl. 15, fig. 13]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [238-239, fig. 83H]

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. [416, pl. 86, figs 9-15]

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 [218]

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. 9, pl. 2, fig. 9] (as Murex clavus)

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [35, pl. 2, fig. 8]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [210] (Elongate 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. 9] (as Murex clavus) (The Rudder Murex)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	MURICIDAE	01-Nov-2011	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		12-Oct-2011	ADDED
		06-Oct-2011	MODIFIED