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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:
Off Three Kings Islands, 91-710 metres
Geographical Range:
A
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
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

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil