MolluscaBase taxon details
Homalocantha sowerbyi Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2022
1567872 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1567872)
accepted
Species
Murex varicosus G. B. Sowerby II, 1834 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Murex...)
invalid: junior homonym of Murex varicosus Röding, 1798; Homalocantha sowerbyi is a replacement name
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). <i>Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae</i>. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.
page(s): 414, 448, pl. 123 fig. 4, pl. 140 figs 1-13 [details]
page(s): 414, 448, pl. 123 fig. 4, pl. 140 figs 1-13 [details]
Type locality contained in Red Sea
type locality contained in Red Sea [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Homalocantha sowerbyi Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2022. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1567872 on 2025-09-12
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original description
Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). <i>Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae</i>. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.
page(s): 414, 448, pl. 123 fig. 4, pl. 140 figs 1-13 [details]
original description (of Murex varicosus G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1834-1841). <i>Murex</i>. In: <i>The Conchological Illustrations; or coloured figures of hitherto unfigured Recent shells</i>. London, privately published. Parts 58–67, 187–199 [Parts 58-67, figs 1-58 [1834]; 187-199, figs 59-121, catalogue (pp. 1-9) and index to the figure (pp. i-ii) (1841)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11915991
page(s): 65, fig. 49 [details]
page(s): 414, 448, pl. 123 fig. 4, pl. 140 figs 1-13 [details]
original description (of Murex varicosus G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1834-1841). <i>Murex</i>. In: <i>The Conchological Illustrations; or coloured figures of hitherto unfigured Recent shells</i>. London, privately published. Parts 58–67, 187–199 [Parts 58-67, figs 1-58 [1834]; 187-199, figs 59-121, catalogue (pp. 1-9) and index to the figure (pp. i-ii) (1841)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11915991
page(s): 65, fig. 49 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
