Hexaplex
| Hexaplex | |
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| Two views of a shell of Hexaplex cichoreum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Hexaplex Perry, 1811 |
| Type species | |
| Hexaplex cichoreum (Gmelin, 1791) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Hexaplex is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails. [1]
Description
This genus includes shells in the family Muricidae that are solid and globose. They contain five to eight varices that are more or less foliaceous.
Species
Species within the genus Hexaplex include : [1]
- Hexaplex ambiguus (Reeve, 1845)
- Hexaplex angularis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Hexaplex bifasciatus (A. Adams, 1853)
- Hexaplex bozzadamii (Franchi, 1990): synonym of Hexaplex kusterianus bozzadamii (Franchi, 1990)
- Hexaplex brassica (Lamarck, 1822)
- Hexaplex cichoreum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hexaplex conatus (McMichael, 1964)
- Hexaplex duplex Röding, 1798
- Hexaplex erythrostomus (Swainson, 1831)
- Hexaplex fulvescens (Sowerby, 1834)
- Hexaplex kusterianus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1875)
- Hexaplex megacerus (G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)
- Hexaplex nigritus (Philippi, 1845)
- Hexaplex pecchiolianus (d'Ancona, 1871)
- Hexaplex princeps (Broderip, 1833)
- Hexaplex radix (Gmelin, 1791)
- Hexaplex regius (Swainson, 1821)
- Hexaplex rileyi D'Attilio & Myers, 1984
- Hexaplex rosarium (Röding, 1798)
- Hexaplex saharicus (Locard, 1897)
- Hexaplex stainforthi (Reeve, 1843)
- Hexaplex strausi (A.H. Verrill, 1950)
- Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Hexaplex turbinatus : syno,nym of Hexaplex duplex (Röding, 1798)
- Hexaplex varius (Sowerby, 1834)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2010). Hexaplex Perry, 1810. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138194 on 2010-11-01
Further reading
- Radwin G. E. & D'Attilio A. (1986) Murex shells of the world. An illustrated guide to the Muricidae. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, x + pp. 1–284 incl 192 figs. + 32 pls.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.