Murex trapa Röding, 1798

Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Cuny, Gilles, Kocsis, László, Sutcharit, Chirasak, Ngamnisai, Nom, Charoentitirat, Thasinee, Kumpitak, Satapat & Suraprasit, Kantapon, 2024, Mid-Holocene marine faunas from the Bangkok Clay deposits in Nakhon Nayok, the Central Plain of Thailand, ZooKeys 1202, pp. 1-110 : 1-110

Murex trapa Röding, 1798

Figs 4 B , 8 B

Murex trapa Röding, 1798: 145. Type locality: Tranquebar, India. Tantanasiriwong 1978: 13, fig. 174. Nateewathana et al. 1981: 59. Way and Purchon 1981: 318. Ponder and Vokes 1988: 41 – 45, figs 17 – 19, 67 g, h, 71 b, c, 73 d, 83 g, h. Bussarawit 1991: 31. Middelfart 1997: 352, pl. 1, fig. 1. Poutiers 1998 b: 565, with in-text figs. Subba Rao and Dey 2000: 102. Tan 2000: 503. Swennen et al. 2001: 55, 126, fig. 410. Hylleberg and Kilburn 2003: 72 – 73. Robba et al. 2003: table 5. Robba et al. 2004: 96 – 97, pl. 12, fig. 9 a, b. Dharma 2005: 158, pl. 54, fig. 4 a, b; 334, pl. 132, fig. 3 a – c. Ramakrishna et al. 2007: 10, 85 – 86. Robba et al. 2007: 92 (appendix). Houart 2008: 136, pl. 636, fig. 2. Nabhitabhata 2009: 147. BEDO 2017 b: 312, with in-text fig. Yang et al. 2017: 70, fig. 288. Surakiatchai et al. 2018: table 5, pl. 1, fig. 7 a, b. Tudu et al. 2018: table 1. Wells et al. 2021: 116.

Murex cf. trapa . Aungtonya and Hylleberg 1998: 319.

Murex (Murex) trapa . Gemert 2003: 105. Thach 2005: 119, pl. 34, fig. 9. Merle et al. 2011: 59, text-fig. 27 e; pl. 4, fig. 7; pl. 5, figs 8 – 10. Gopalakrishnan et al. 2012: 77. Sanpanich and Duangdee 2013: 63. Okutani 2017: 947, pl. 238, fig. 6.

Referred material.

CUF - NKNY - G 09 (33 shells; Figs 4 B , 8 B ).

Habitat.

Fine sand and muddy sand bottoms at a depth of 5–60 m ( Swennen et al. 2001; Robba et al. 2004).

Distribution.

Indian Ocean; Indo-West Pacific, from Japan to Fiji Islands ( Dharma 2005; Okutani 2017). Records of fossils from the Middle Miocene to Holocene in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand ( Ponder and Vokes 1988; Robba et al. 2004; Dharma 2005; Surakiatchai et al. 2018).

Record in Thailand.

Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea ( Wells et al. 2021).

Taxonomic remarks and comparisons.

This species differs from other related species in having a higher spire, angulated whorls, and shorter spines ( Ponder and Vokes 1988). See also comprehensive taxonomic remarks in Ponder and Vokes (1988).

Superfamily Conoidea Fleming, 1822

Figures

Figure 4. Size comparison of gastropods found in this study A Brunneifusus ternatanus B Murex trapa C Indothais lacera D Pristiterebra miranda E Chicoreus capucinus F Indothais gradata G Ellobium aurisjudae H Inquisitor vulpionis I Turricula javana J Architectonica perdix K Pseudoneptunea varicosa L Cassidula nucleus M Pseudoetrema fortilirata N Paradrillia melvilli O Duplicaria tricincta P Granuliterebra bathyrhaphe Q Comitas ilariae R Cylichna modesta S Maoritomella vallata.

Figure 8. Gastropods A Indothais lacera B Murex trapa C Turricula javana D Inquisitor vulpionis E Pristiterebra miranda F Granuliterebra bathyrhaphe.