WoRMS name details
Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840
1363285 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1363285)
unaccepted > superseded rank
Subgenus
Murex radix Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Muricanthus radix (Gmelin, 1791) (type by subsequent designation)
Murex (Muricantha) P. Fischer, 1884 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation)
- Species Murex (Muricanthus) trunculus Linnaeus, 1753 accepted as Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 296 [details]
page(s): 296 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1363285 on 2025-06-30
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Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 296 [details]
basis of record Iljina L. B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS.</em> 255: 1-151., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-iljina1993opredmorsksrednemiotsengastropodjuvevraziipin255.djvu
page(s): 99 [details]
page(s): 296 [details]
basis of record Iljina L. B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS.</em> 255: 1-151., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-iljina1993opredmorsksrednemiotsengastropodjuvevraziipin255.djvu
page(s): 99 [details]
