A NEW GENUS OF ATLANTIC MURICIDAE WITH MISLEADING SHELL MORPHOLOGY (MOLLUSCA, GASTROPODA)

Authors
BOUCHET P HOUART R
Citation
P. Bouchet et R. Houart, A NEW GENUS OF ATLANTIC MURICIDAE WITH MISLEADING SHELL MORPHOLOGY (MOLLUSCA, GASTROPODA), Journal of Conchology, 35, 1996, pp. 423-426
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology,"Marine & Freshwater Biology
Journal title
Journal of Conchology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00220019
Volume
35
Year of publication
1996
Part
5
Pages
423 - 426
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-0019(1996)35:<423:ANGOAM>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
The tropical West African Murex gubbi Reeve, 1849, until now classifie d in Chicoreus (subfamily Muricinae), is made the type of the new genu s Chicocenebra (subfamily Ocenebrinae), based on radular and shell mor phology. The species had been erroneously classified due to the conver gence of its shell with species in the wrong subfamily.