WoRMS name details
Murex imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877
![To GB Mollusca Types (Murex (Chicoreus) imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Lectotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [92]")](https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk/biosyb_images/images/0022000_0023999/web/thumbnails/0022142.jpg "To GB Mollusca Types (Murex (Chicoreus) imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Lectotype; \"not registered, collected 1876 [92]\")")
404508 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404508)
unaccepted > junior homonym (invalid: junior homonym of Murex imbricatus Brocchi, 1814; Murex (Chicoreus) argo is a replacement name)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Higgins, H. H. (1877). Mollusca collected during a voyage to the West Indies in the Royal Mersey Steam Yacht "Argo". <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.</em> 31: 409-423, pl. 1., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=xaRbxwEACAAJ&pg=PA410-IA2&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 413, pl. 1 fig. 2 [details]
page(s): 413, pl. 1 fig. 2 [details]
Type locality contained in Grenada
type locality contained in Grenada [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Murex imbricatus H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404508 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Higgins, H. H. (1877). Mollusca collected during a voyage to the West Indies in the Royal Mersey Steam Yacht "Argo". <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.</em> 31: 409-423, pl. 1., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=xaRbxwEACAAJ&pg=PA410-IA2&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 413, pl. 1 fig. 2 [details]
page(s): 413, pl. 1 fig. 2 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) <i>Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae.</i> Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.
page(s): 104 [details]
page(s): 104 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
