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

description: <i>Hirtomurex winckworthi</i> (Fulton, 1930) Fig. 218 <i>Latiaxis winckworthi</i> Fulton, 1930: 251, figs 1, 1a. Synonyms: <i>Latiaxis scobina</i> Kilburn, 1973: 567, fig. 9a. <i>Latiaxis translucidus</i> Kosuge, 1981b: 88, pl. 29, figs 1-3. TYPE MATERIAL. — <i>Latiaxis winckworthi</i>: holotype BMNH 1931.7.31.15, figured by Kosuge &amp; Suzuki (1985: pl. 36, fig. 8) and Higo <i>et al.</i> (2001: 69 G2470). — <i>Latiaxis scobina</i>: holotype NM 9950, figured by Kosuge &amp; Suzuki (1985: pl. 36, fig. 7), paratype NM 9996. — <i>Latiaxis translucidus</i>: holotype IMT 81-4 [not seen], figured by Kosuge &amp; Suzuki (1985: pl. 36, fig. 9, and pl. 22, fig. 4). TYPE LOCALITY. — <i>L. winckworthi</i>: Kii Peninsula (Gob&amp;omacr; District, central Honsh&amp;umacr;, Japan). — <i>L. scobina</i>: off Durban, South Africa, 147 m [80 fms]. — <i>L.translucidus</i>: Bohol Island, Philippines (about 200 m deep). MATERIAL EXAMINED. — <b>Indian Ocean</b>. Off Djibouti, prawn <b>Fiji</b>. BORDAU 1: stn CP 1501, 18°40’S, 178°30’W, 350-357 m, fishing boats, 80-100 m, 1 dd (MO). 1 lv (Fig. 218). <b>East China Sea</b>. Northeast of Taiwan, coral fishing boat (obtai- <b>Tonga</b>. BORDAU 2: stn CP 1510, 21°05’S, 175°23’W, 461-497 ned from dealer), 1 lv (MO); Tosa Bay, Japan, 60 m, 1 lv (MO). m, 1 dd. DISTRIBUTION. — Indo-West Pacific. Indian Ocean: South Africa to Somalia (Kosuge 1993). Pacific Ocean: from Kii Peninsula (Japan) to South China Sea and Philippines, “sand bottoms in 100-200 m ” (Tsuchiya 2000). Fiji, live in 350-357 m, and Tonga, empty shell in 461-497 m, range extension in the southwest Pacific. REMARKS. — Southwest Pacific specimens lack the protoconch. The shells from Djibouti and off Taiwan, have protoconchs (2+ and 2.2 whorls, respectively) of the planktotrophic type.
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 548
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