Hexaplex
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]
| Hexaplex | |
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| Two views of a shell of Hexaplex cichoreum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Hexaplex Perry, 1811 |
| Type species | |
| Hexaplex cichoreum (Gmelin, 1791) | |
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This genus is known in the fossil record from the Paleocene to the Quaternary period (age range: from 61.7 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.[2]
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 : synonym of Hexaplex duplex (Röding, 1798)
- Hexaplex varius (Sowerby, 1834)
Extinct species
Extinct species within the genus Hexaplex include:[2]
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) colei Palmer 1937
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) engonatus Conrad 1833
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) etheringtoni Vokes 1968
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) katherinae Vokes 1968
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) marksi Harris 1894
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) silvaticus Palmer 1937
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) supernus Palmer 1947
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) texanus Vokes 1968
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) vanuxemi Conrad 1865
- †Hexaplex (Hexaplex) veatchi Maury 1910
- †Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) bourgeoisi Tournouër 1875
- †Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) brevicanthos Sismonda 1847
- †Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) campanii De Stefani and Pantanelli 1878
- †Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) rudis Borson 1821
- †Hexaplex hertweckorum Petuch 1988
Fossil shell of Hexaplex trunculus
References
- 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
- Fossilworks
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.
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