Muricopsis cristata explained

Muricopsis (Muricopsis) cristata, common name Blainville's muricop, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Synonyms

• Fusus asperrimus Millet, 1865 (junior homonym of Fusus asperrimus T. Brown, 1827)
• Fusus dodecanesinus Bevilacqua, 1928
• Murex blainvillei Payraudeau, 1826
• Murex blainvillei var. aterrima Dautzenberg, 1890
• Murex blainvillei var. bicolor Monterosato, 1878
• Murex blainvillei var. gracilis Monterosato in Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882
• Murex blainvillei var. gracilis Monterosato, 1870
• Murex blainvillei var. minor Praus, 1906
• Murex blainvillei var. rosea Monterosato, 1878 in Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882
• Murex blainvillei var. trophoniformis Monterosato, 1884
• Murex blainvillei var. violacea Monterosato, in Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882
• Murex blainvillii Payraudeau, 1826
• Murex blainvillii var. bicolor Monterosato, 1878
• Murex cataphractus Sowerby, 1834
• Murex cinosurus Chiereghini in Nardo, 1847
• Murex cristatus Brocchi, 1814 (basionym)
• Murex cristatus var. adellus de Gregorio, 1885
• Murex cristatus var. ampa de Gregorio, 1885
• Murex cristatus var. ampus de Gregorio, 1885
• Murex cristatus var. berdica de Gregorio, 1885 (synonym)
• Murex cristatus var. berdicus de Gregorio, 1885
• Murex cristatus var. emus de Gregorio, 1885
• Murex cristatus var. expallescens Tapparone Canefri, 1869
• Murex cristatus var. inermis Philippi, 1836
• Murex dentatus Anton, 1838
• Murex inermis Philippi, 1836
• Murex inermis trifasciata Nordsieck, 1972
• Murex pliciferus Bivona-Bernardi, 1832
• Murex porrectus Locard, 1886
• Murex pustulatus Locard, 1899
• Murex rudis Risso, 1826
• Murex rugulosa O.G. Costa, 1861
• Murex subspinosus A. Adams, 1854
• Muricidea blainvillei [sic] (misspelling of Muricidea blainvillii (Payraudeau, 1826))
• Muricidea blainvillei var. trophoniformis Weinkauff, 1868)
• Muricidea polliaeformis Weinkauff, 1868
• Muricopsis (Muricopsis) cristata (Brocchi, 1814)· accepted, alternate representation
• Muricopsis atra Nordsieck, 1972
• Muricopsis blainvillei (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. hispida Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. horrida Monterosato in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. oblonga Stalio in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. rosea Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. spinulata Coen, 1937
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. spinulosa Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. spinulosa Stalio in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. umbilicata Coen, 1930
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. violacea Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882
• Muricopsis blainvillii (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Muricopsis blainvillii var. horrida Monterosato in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis blainvillii var. oblonga Stalio in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis blainvillii var. spinulosa Stalio in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis cristatus (Brocchi, 1814)
• Muricopsis cristatus major Settepassi, 1977
• Muricopsis cristatus pungens Monterosato in Settepassi, 1977
• Muricopsis cristatus spinulatus Stalio in Settepassi, 1977
• Muricopsis glutinosa Palazzi & Villari, 2001 (dubious synonym)
• Muricopsis hispida Monterosato in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis inermis (Philippi, 1836)
• Muricopsis inermis trifasciata Nordsieck, 1972
• Muricopsis spinulosa Stalio in Coen, 1933
• Muricopsis spinulosa obsoleta Nordsieck, 1972
• Ocinebra blainvillei [sic] (misspelling of Ocinebra blainvillii (Payraudeau, 1826))
• Ocinebra blainvillei var. elongata Locard & Caziot, 1900
• Ocinebra blainvillei var. ventricosa Locard & Caziot, 1900
• Ocinebrina blainvillei (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Ocinebrina blainvillei var. hirsuta Pallary, 1904
• Ocinebrina blainvillii (Payraudeau, 1826)
• Pollia coccinea Monterosato, 1884 (dubious synonym)

Fossil records

The fossil record dates back to the Pliocene (age range: from 3.6 to 2.588 million years ago).^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 10 mm and 35 mm. Size, color and morphology are very variable. The whorls have a variable number of more or less prominent varices showing foliaceous or spinose projections. They have a well-developed siphonal canal, and the siphon is quite elongated.^[2]

Distribution

This quite common species ioccurs in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Atlantic Ocean off Portugal, Morocco and the Canaries and in the Red Sea.

References

• Nordsieck, F. (1972). Marine Gastropoden aus der Shiqmona-Bucht in Israël. Archiv für Molluskenkunde der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 102(4–6): 227–245.
• Palazzi, S.; Villari, A. (2001). Molluschi e Brachiopodi delle grotte sottomarine del Taorminense. La Conchiglia. 297, suppl., 56 pp
• Nordsieck, F. (1972). Marine Gastropoden aus der Shiqmona-Bucht in Israël. Archiv für Molluskenkunde der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft. 102(4–6): 227–245.
• Coen G. (1933). Saggio di una Sylloge Molluscorum Adriaticorum. Memorie del Regio Comitato Talassografico Italiano 192: pp. i-vii, 1–186
• Ceulemans L., van Dingenen F., Merle D. & Landau B.M. (2016). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire-Atlantique, northwest France). Part 3) – Muricidae. Vita Malacologica. 15: 35–55.
• Landau B.M., Merle D., Ceulemans L. & Van Dingenen F. (2019). The upper Miocene gastropods of northwestern France, 3. Muricidae. Cainozoic Research. 19(1): 3–44.

External links

• Brocchi G.B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Milano. Vol. 1: i-lxxx, 1–56, 1-240; vol. 2: 241–712, 16 pls
• Nardo, Giovanni Domenico. (1847). Sinonimia moderna delle specie regisrate nell'opera intitolati: descrizione d'crostacei, de testacei e de pesci che abitano le lagune e golfo veneto rappres- sentanti in figure, a chiaroscuro ed a colori dall' Abata Stefano Chiereghini: Venezia, Ven. Clodiense applicata per commissione governativa dal Dr. Gio. Domenico Nardo
• Philippi R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. Schropp, Berlin [Berolini]: xiv + 267 p., pl. 1–12
• Bivona-Bernardi Ant. (1832). Caratteri di alcune nuove specie di conchiglie. Effemeride Scientifiche e Letterarie per la Sicilia 2: 16, pl. 2
• Locard A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusque marins. Lyon, H. Georg & Paris, Baillière : pp. X + 778,
• Risso, A. (1826–1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Paris, Levrault:. . 3(XVI): 1–480, 14 pls.
• Adams A. (1854 ["1853"]). Descriptions of new shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 21: 69–74.
• Pallary P. (1904–1906). Addition à la faune malacologique du Golfe de Gabès. Journal de Conchyliologie. 52: 212–248, pl. 7 [1904]; 54: 77–124, pl. 4 []
• Payraudeau B. C. (1826). Catalogue descriptif et méthodique des Annelides et des Mollusques de l'île de Corse. Paris, 218 pp. + 8 pl
• Sowerby I, G. B. & Sowerby II, G. B. (1832–1841). The conchological illustrations or, Coloured figures of all the hitherto unfigured recent shells. London, privately published.
• Anton H.E. (1838 ["1839"]). Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Herausgegeben von dem Besitzer. Halle: Anton. xvi + 110 pp. [Title page dated 1839, but volume actually published in 1838; see Cernohorsky, 1978, The Veliger 20(3): 299.]
• Weinkauff H. C. (1867–1868). Die Conchylien des Mittelmeeres, ihre geographische und geologisches Verbreitung. T. Fischer, Cassel Vol. 1: pp. XIX + 307 [1867]. Vol. 2: pp. VI + 512. [1868]
• Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 p
• Bucquoy E., Dautzenberg P. & Dollfus G. (1882–1886). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome Ier. Gastropodes. Paris: Baillière & fils. 570 pp., 66 pls. [pp. 1–40, pls 1–5, February 1882; pp. 41–84, pls 6–10, August 1882; pp. 85–135, pls 11–15, February 1883; pp. 136–196, pls 16–20, August 1883; pp. 197–222, pls 21–25, January 1884; pp. 223–258, pls 26–30, February 1884; pp. 259–298, pls 31–35, August 1884; pp. 299–342, pls 36–40, September 1884; pp. 343–386, pls 41–45, February 1885; pp. 387–418, pls 46–50, August 1885; pp. 419–454, pls 51–60, January 1886; pp. 455–486, pls 56–60, April 1886; pp. 487–570, pls 61–66, October 1886 ]
• Locard A. & Caziot E. (1900–1901). Les coquilles marines des côtes de Corse. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon, 46: 193–274 [1900]; 47: 1–80, 159–291 [1901]
• Muricopsis cristata - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliography
• Muricopsis cristata - NCBI Taxonomy Database
• Muricopsis cristata - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Muricopsis cristata - Encyclopedia of Life

Notes and References

1. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=11389# Fossilworks
2. http://mbshells.blogspot.it/2011_03_01_archive.html Mb Shells