MolluscaBase taxon details
Favartia humilis (Broderip, 1833)
738310 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:738310)
accepted
Species
Favartia (Murexiella) humilis (Broderip, 1833) · unaccepted
Murex fricki Crosse, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)
Murex humilis Broderip, 1833 · unaccepted (original combination)
Murex octogonus G. B. Sowerby II, 1860 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Murex...)
invalid: junior homonym of Murex octogonus Quoy & Gaimard, 1833; M. sowerbyi Kobelt, 1877 is a replacement name
Murex sowerbyi Kobelt, 1877 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Murex...)
invalid: junior homonym of Murex sowerbyi Michelotti, 1841
marine
(of Murex humilis Broderip, 1833) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1832-1833). [Descriptions of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> Part II for 1832: 25–33 [21 April 1832], 50-61 [5 June 1832], 104–108 [31 July 1832], 113–120 [14 August 1832]; 173–179 [14 Jan. 1833], 194–202 [13 March 1833]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26730700
page(s): 175 [details]
page(s): 175 [details]
Type locality contained in Ecuadorean Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Ecuadorean Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Favartia humilis (Broderip, 1833). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=738310 on 2025-09-10
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original description
(of Murex fricki Crosse, 1865) Crosse, H. (1865). Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 13 (1): 55-57., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15133666
page(s): 57 [details]
original description (of Murex humilis Broderip, 1833) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1832-1833). [Descriptions of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> Part II for 1832: 25–33 [21 April 1832], 50-61 [5 June 1832], 104–108 [31 July 1832], 113–120 [14 August 1832]; 173–179 [14 Jan. 1833], 194–202 [13 March 1833]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26730700
page(s): 175 [details]
original description (of Murex octogonus 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): 428, pl. 49 fig. 7 [details]
original description (of Murex sowerbyi Kobelt, 1877) Kobelt, W. (1877). Catalog der Gattung <i>Murex</i> Lam. (excl. gen. <i>Trophon, Vitularia et Typhis</i>). <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 4: 141-161, 238-252., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16296997; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16297094
page(s): 248 [details]
basis of record Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). <i>Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae</i>. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.
page(s): 360, pl. 96 figs 1-9 [details]
page(s): 57 [details]
original description (of Murex humilis Broderip, 1833) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1832-1833). [Descriptions of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America, and among the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean.]. <em>Proceedings of the Committee of Science and correspondence of the Zoological Society of London.</em> Part II for 1832: 25–33 [21 April 1832], 50-61 [5 June 1832], 104–108 [31 July 1832], 113–120 [14 August 1832]; 173–179 [14 Jan. 1833], 194–202 [13 March 1833]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26730700
page(s): 175 [details]
original description (of Murex octogonus 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): 428, pl. 49 fig. 7 [details]
original description (of Murex sowerbyi Kobelt, 1877) Kobelt, W. (1877). Catalog der Gattung <i>Murex</i> Lam. (excl. gen. <i>Trophon, Vitularia et Typhis</i>). <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 4: 141-161, 238-252., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16296997; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16297094
page(s): 248 [details]
basis of record Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). <i>Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae</i>. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.
page(s): 360, pl. 96 figs 1-9 [details]




To Malacopics (Favartia humilis (Broderip, 1833) Mexico, Sinaloa, Mazatlán, collected 1985, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)
To Malacopics (Favartia humilis (Broderip, 1833) Panama, Chiriquí, Golfo de Chiriqui, Isla de Adentro, in sand and rubble, by dredging at 60 m depth, collected 2005-03-00, ex coll. J. Trausel .)
To Malacopics (Favartia humilis (Broderip, 1833) Panama, Chiriquí, Golfo de Chiriqui, Isla de Adentro, in sand and rubble, by dredging at 60 m depth, collected 2005-03-00, ex coll. J. Trausel .)