Hirtomurex filiaregis (Kurohara, 1959)

Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 481-586 : 549

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978-2-85653-614-8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491456

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/352C264A-8E1D-FF9B-D8B5-0E70DBE0BD92

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scientific name

Hirtomurex filiaregis (Kurohara, 1959)
status

 

Hirtomurex filiaregis (Kurohara, 1959) View in CoL

Figs 104, 187

Latiaxis filiaregis Kurohara, 1959: 342-344 View in CoL .

TYPE MATERIAL. — Possibly lost (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: 25).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Tosa Bay , southern Shikoku, Japan .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Norfolk Ridge. SMIB 8: stn DW 187, 23°18’S, 168°06’E, 390-540 m, 1 lv GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION. — West Pacific : from southern Japan to the Philippines, 100-200 m, rocks (Higo et al. 1999: 221). Norfolk Ridge, live in 390-540 m.

REMARKS. — Protoconch of 2.8 conical whorls, 625 Μm high, 800 Μm wide at the base. Protoconch-I of about 0.8 whorls, sculptured with pustules over the entire surface. Protoconch-II of about 2 whorls, with 2 spiral keels, and sculptured with a series of subsutural threads and a series of similar threads over each keel; a diffuse granulation is present in the interspaces. Molecular data ( Oliverio & Mariottini 2001a) indicate affinity with the group of spinyshelled coralliophilines ( Babelomurex / Latiaxis ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Muricidae

Genus

Hirtomurex

Loc

Hirtomurex filiaregis (Kurohara, 1959)

Oliverio, Marco 2008
2008
Loc

Latiaxis filiaregis

Kurohara 1959: 342 - 344
1959
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