Hirtomurex kawamurai
Creators: name: Oliverio, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Hirtomurex
Hirtomurex kawamurai

description: <i>Hirtomurex kawamurai</i> (Shikama, 1978) Fig. 107 <i>Coralliophila</i> (<i>Hirtomurex</i>) <i>kawamurai</i> Shikama, 1978: 40, pl. 7, figs 27-30. TYPE MATERIAL. — Lectotype NSMT Mo 61234 (“ holotype ” in Matsukuma <i>et al</i>. 1991: 69, pl. 68, fig. 9), figured also by Higo <i>et al</i>. (2001: 69, G2469). TYPE LOCALITY. — Tosa Bay, southern Shikoku, Japan. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — <b>New Caledonia proper.</b> BATHUS 3: stn DW 838, 23°01’S, 166°56’E, 400-402 m, 2 dd (Fig. 107). <b>New Hebrides Arc</b>. VOLSMAR: stn DW 30, Hunter and Matthew Islands, 22°17’S, 171°18’E, 450-550 m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Western Pacific: from Kii Peninsula, Japan, to the Philippines (Higo <i>et al</i>. 1999: 221). Present material from New Caledonia and New Hebrides Arc, empty shells in 402-450 m. REMARKS. — The two shells from southwestern New Caledonia (BATHUS 3 stn DW 838) are concordant with the lectotype of <i>Coralliophila kawamurai</i>. The shell from the New Hebrides Arc (damaged and eroded) is somewhat different, in having a less constricted base and a slightly higher spire. It is possible that it represents a different species (or possibly a worn specimen of <i>Hirtomurex</i> sp. A, see below), but more material is needed to determine this. The specific epithet <i>kawamurai</i> had already been used for another coralliophiline species (<i>Babelomurex kawamurai</i> (Kira, 1959) [described in <i>Latiaxis</i>]). However, there is at present neither primary homonymy (<i>Coralliophila</i> vs. <i>Latiaxis</i>) nor secondary homonymy (<i>Hirtomurex</i> vs. <i>Babelomurex</i>). Although at present the suprageneric taxonomy of coralliophilines is not stabilized, only if the two species are placed in the future in the same genus will an issue of homonymy arise, and only at that time will it become necessary to consider a new name for the present species.
description: Published as part of <i>Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, pp. 481-586 in Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196</i> on page 552
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