WoRMS name details
Murex (Chicoreus) argo Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945
![To GB Mollusca Types (Murex (Chicoreus) imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Lectotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [92]")](https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk/biosyb_images/images/0022000_0023999/web/thumbnails/0022142.jpg "To GB Mollusca Types (Murex (Chicoreus) imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Lectotype; \"not registered, collected 1876 [92]\")")
404015 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404015)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
Murex imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877 · unaccepted > junior homonym (invalid: junior homonym of Murex...)
invalid: junior homonym of Murex imbricatus Brocchi, 1814; Murex (Chicoreus) argo is a replacement name
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Clench, W. J. & Pérez Farfante, I. (1945). The genus <i>Murex</i> in the Western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(17): 1-58, pls 1-29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41114099
page(s): 31, pl. 17 [details]
page(s): 31, pl. 17 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Murex (Chicoreus) argo Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404015 on 2025-05-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Clench, W. J. & Pérez Farfante, I. (1945). The genus <i>Murex</i> in the Western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(17): 1-58, pls 1-29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41114099
page(s): 31, pl. 17 [details]
page(s): 31, pl. 17 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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): 104 [details]
page(s): 104 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To GB Mollusca Types (Murex (Chicoreus) imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Lectotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [92]") (from synonym Murex imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
