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Dermomurex asteriscus

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Dermomurex asteriscus (Tate, 1888)

Murex (Rhinocantha) asteriscus Tate, 1888: 102, pl. 2, fig. 10.

Dermomurex (Viator) asteriscus (Tate, 1888).— Vokes, 1974a: 5, pl. 1, figs 3a, b; Vokes, 1975: 127, 153, pl. 6, fig. 3; Vokes, 1985a: 56, pl. 3, figs 1, 2; Merle et al., 2011: 227, 592, pl. 180, figs 3a, b, figs 77e, f.

Distribution. Otway Basin: Muddy Creek Formation (type). Age: middle Miocene.

Notes

Published as part of Darragh, Thomas A., 2024, A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca, pp. 37-206 in Memoirs of Museum Victoria 83 on page 91, DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2024.83.02, http://zenodo.org/record/14704472

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Tate
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Neogastropoda
Family
Muricidae
Genus
Dermomurex
Species
asteriscus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dermomurex asteriscus (Tate, 1888) sec. Darragh, 2024

References

  • Tate, R. 1888 (August). The gastropods of the Older Tertiary of Australia - part I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 10: 91 - 176.
  • Vokes, E. H. 1974 a (August). A new species and subgenus of Australian Dermomurex (Gastropoda: Muricidae). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 3 (1): 1 - 5.
  • Vokes, E. H. 1975 (February). Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region, part VI - Aspella and Dermomurex. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 11 (3): 121 - 162.
  • Vokes, E. H. 1985 a (June). The genus Dermomurex (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Australia. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 7 (1 - 2): 45 - 65.
  • Merle, D., Garrigues, B., and Pointier, J. - P. 2011. Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: part Muricinae. Conch Books: Hackenheim. 648 pp.