Species Murex (Murex) ternispina Lamarck, 1822

Museums

Regional Maps

• Murex ternispina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [158, no. 6].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH 1099/4, Indian Ocean.
• Murex nigrispinosus 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. 20, fig. 79].

  Type data:

   Holotype CUMZ.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Sri Lanka to Philippines

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 92 m

 

General References

Houart, R. 2010. Description of a new species from Indonesia in the Murex scolopax group (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) and comments about Murex (Murex) ternispina Lamarck, 1822 from East Java. Novapex 11(1): 29-35 [33, figs 17, 19-21, 24-26]

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. [256, pl. 6, figs 1-2]

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] [80, figs 41, 77J]

Smith, E.A. 1904. Natural history notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey Steamer "Investigator", commander T.H. Heming, R.N. - Series III., No. 1. On Mollusca from the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 13(58): 453-473 [continued from series 7 vol. 4(22): 237-251] [461]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [34]

 

Common Name References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [140] (as Acupurpura ternispina) (Triple-spined 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. 79] (as Murex nigrispinosus) (The Black-Spined 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