MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Murex radix Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3527 [details]
basis of record
Houart, R. & Wiedrick, S.G. (2021). Review of <i>Muricanthus</i> Swainson, 1840 and some Recent species assigned to <i>Hexaplex</i> s.s. Perry, 1810, <i>Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis)</i> Cossmann, 1921 and <i>Phyllonotus</i> Swainson, 1833. <em>Novapex.</em> 22(1-2): 25-42.
page(s): 34, figs 2C, 9, 10A-K [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Bahia Magdalena, Baja California Sur to the southern Gulf of California to Paita, Peru. [details]