North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Hexaplex G. Perry, 1810

AphiaID

138194 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138194)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Hexaplex G. Perry, 1810

Synonymised names

Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) Cossmann, 1921 · alternative representation

Purpura Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Purpura Bruguière, 1789

Trunculariopsis Cossmann, 1921 · unaccepted

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Species Hexaplex duplex (Röding, 1798)
Species Hexaplex megacerus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)
Species Hexaplex saharicus (Locard, 1897)
Species Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Hexaplex bojadorensis (Locard, 1897) accepted as Favartia bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)
Species Hexaplex pecchiolianus (d'Ancona, 1871) accepted as Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subgenus Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) Cossmann, 1921 represented as Hexaplex G. Perry, 1810
1. Species Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) pecchiolianus (D'Ancona, 1871) † accepted as Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
2. Species Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758) represented as Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Perry G. (1810-1811). Arcana: or the Museum of Natural History. pls. 1-48 (= 1810), pls. 49-84 (= 1811), unnumbered text pages. London: James Stratford. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39045115
page(s): Explication to pl. 23 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hexaplex G. Perry, 1810. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php/images/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138194 on 2026-07-12

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Hexaplex G. Perry, 1810. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138194 on 2026-07-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-30 11:31:32Z

changed

Vandepitte, Leen

2009-06-04 17:14:50Z

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Houart, Roland

2009-06-27 11:13:43Z

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Houart, Roland

2012-03-01 22:24:59Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2021-06-12 10:27:25Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2024-07-26 16:21:36Z

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Auffenberg, Kurt

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original description Perry G. (1810-1811). Arcana: or the Museum of Natural History. pls. 1-48 (= 1810), pls. 49-84 (= 1811), unnumbered text pages. London: James Stratford. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39045115
page(s): Explication to pl. 23 [details]

original description (of Purpura Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

basis of record Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.
page(s): 77 [details]

subsequent type designation Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 417-497., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3343255
page(s): 469 [details]

Present

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Introduced: alien

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Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hexaplex)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Purpura) (from synonym Purpura Röding, 1798)
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