WoRMS taxon details
Pterochelus Jousseaume, 1880
406230 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:406230)
accepted
Genus
Murex acanthopterus Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Pterochelus acanthopterus (Lamarck, 1816) (type by original designation)
Murex (Alipurpura) P. Fischer, 1884 · unaccepted
Pteronotus (Pterochelus) Jousseaume, 1880 · unaccepted
Pteropurpura (Alipurpura) P. Fischer, 1884 · unaccepted
Pterynotus (Pterochelus) Jousseaume, 1880 · unaccepted
- Species Pterochelus acanthopterus (Lamarck, 1816)
- Species Pterochelus akation (E. H. Vokes, 1993)
- Species Pterochelus ariomus (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
- Species Pterochelus duffusi Iredale, 1936
- Species Pterochelus saibaiensis (Melvill & Standen, 1899)
- Species Pterochelus triformis (Reeve, 1845)
- Species Pterochelus undosus (E. H. Vokes, 1993)
- Species Pterochelus webbi Petuch & Berschauer, 2018
- Species Pterochelus westralis (Ponder & B. R. Wilson, 1973)
- Species Pterochelus diffusi [sic] accepted as Pterochelus duffusi Iredale, 1936 (misspelling)
- Species Pterochelus dondani Kosuge, 1984 accepted as Pygmaepterys dondani (Kosuge, 1984) (original combination)
- Species Pterochelus paupereques A. W. B. Powell, 1974 accepted as Prototyphis eos paupereques (A. W. B. Powell, 1974) (superseded combination)
marine
Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. <em>Le Naturaliste.</em> 2(42): 335-338., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33928744
page(s): 335 [details]
page(s): 335 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pterochelus Jousseaume, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406230 on 2025-04-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. <em>Le Naturaliste.</em> 2(42): 335-338., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33928744
page(s): 335 [details]
original description (of Murex (Alipurpura) P. Fischer, 1884) Fischer, P. (1880-1887). <i>Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.</i>. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 641; note: name attributed by Fischer to Bayle [details]
page(s): 335 [details]
original description (of Murex (Alipurpura) P. Fischer, 1884) Fischer, P. (1880-1887). <i>Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.</i>. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 641; note: name attributed by Fischer to Bayle [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
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): 136 [details]
page(s): 136 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
