Murex trapa Roding 1798
Creators
- 1. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand & Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels - Standort Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 3, Hamburg 20146, Germany
- 2. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, LEHNA UMR 5023, CNRS, ENTPE, F- 69622, Villeurbanne, France
- 3. Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Rue de la Mouline, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- 4. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
- 5. Department of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok 10110, Thailand
Description
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
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muricidae
- Genus
- Murex
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Neogastropoda
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Roding
- Species
- trapa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Murex trapa Roding, 1798 sec. Jirapatrasilp, Cuny, Kocsis, Sutcharit, Ngamnisai, Charoentitirat, Kumpitak & Suraprasit, 2024
References
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- Tantanasiriwong R (1978) An illustrated checklist of marine shelled gastropods from Phuket Island, adjacent mainland and offshore island, western peninsular Thailand. Research Bulletin - Phuket Marine Biological Center 21: 1 – 63.
- Nateewathana A, Tantichodok P, Bussarawich S, Sirivejabandhu R (1981) Marine organisms in the Reference Collection. Research Bulletin - Phuket Marine Biological Center 28: 43 – 86.
- Way K, Purchon RD (1981) The marine shelled Mollusca of West Malaysia and Singapore part 2. Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. Journal of Molluscan Studies 47: 313 – 321. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a065574
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