original description
(of Purpura cancellata Roding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
original description
(of Murex roseotinctus G. B. Sowerby II, 1860) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1860). Descriptions of new shells in the collection of Mr. Cuming. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1859: 428-429, pl. 49., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32274842
page(s): 429, pl. 49 fig. 6 [details]
original description
(of Murex triqueter Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]; (Kraus)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 [details]
original description
(of Triplex flexuosa G. Perry, 1811) Perry, G. (1811). Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries. W. Miller, London, 4 pp. + 61 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41764832
page(s): pl. 7, fig. 1 [details]
original description
(of Purpura variegata Roding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
original description
(of Murex trigonulus Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck J.B. (1816). Liste des objets représentés dans les planches de cette livraison. In: <i>Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la Nature.</i> Mollusques et Polypes divers. Agasse, Paris. 16 pp.
page(s): 5 [details]
basis of record
Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) <i>Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae.</i> Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.
page(s): 113 [details]
basis of record
Houart, R., Moe, C. & Chen C. (2021). Living species of the genera <i>Chicomurex</i> Arakawa, 1964 and <i>Naquetia</i> Jousseaume, 1880 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. <em>Novapex.</em> 22 (hors-série 14): 1-52.
page(s): 44, figs 5G; 26A-R; 28; 29I-J [details]
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Distribution Andaman Islands, Christmas Is, Indian Ocean; Straits of Makassar, the Moluccas, Vietnam, The Philippine Islands, Okinawa, Japan, Papua New Guinea and other localities in the Pacific Ocean with the Tuamotus as the eastern limit. A record from Réunion Island (Merle et al. 2011: pl. 79, fig. 3) is considered doubtful by Houart et al. (2021) because N. triqueter was otherwise never recorded from the western Indian Ocean. [details]
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