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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICOPSINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricopsinae (Subfamily)
> Murexsul (Genus)
> profundus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Hexaplex (Murexsul) Iredale, 1915
=Murexsul (Murexsul) Iredale, 1915
=Muricopsis (Murexsul) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Muricopsis (Murexsul) profunda B.A. Marshall & K. W. Burch, 2000
=Muricopsis profunda B.A. Marshall & K. W. Burch, 2000
Images: Murexsul profundus (B.A. Marshall & K. W. Burch, 2000)
Holotype, collected 19 Feb 1974, off Three Kings Islands, NZ (M.070356). © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
MURICIDAE: MURICOPSINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Neogastropoda (Order)
> Muricoidea (Superfamily)
> Muricidae (Family)
> Muricopsinae (Subfamily)
> Murexsul (Genus)
> profundus (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Hexaplex (Murexsul) Iredale, 1915
=Murexsul (Murexsul) Iredale, 1915
=Muricopsis (Murexsul) Iredale, 1915
Synonymised Names:
=Muricopsis (Murexsul) profunda B.A. Marshall & K. W. Burch, 2000
=Muricopsis profunda B.A. Marshall & K. W. Burch, 2000
Details: Murexsul profundus (B.A. Marshall & K. W. Burch, 2000)
Size/Grows to:
Height 10.5mm
Distribution:
Middlesex Bank and Three Kings Islands, from 91-805m
Type Data:
  • 155 metres, off Three Kings Islands, NZ, (paratype)
  • 310 metres, NW of Great Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ, (paratype)
  • 91 metres, off North-east Island, Three Kings Islands, NZ, (holotype)
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
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References and Publications
  • Marshall, B.A., Burch, K.W. 2000 The New Zealand Recent species of Muricopsis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg and Dollfus, 1882 (Gastropoda: Muricidae), The Nautilus, 114(1) (p.24) Original Description

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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