Muricopsis cristata

Muricopsis cristata Temporal range:
A shell of Muricopsis (Muricopsis) cristata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Muricopsis
Species:	M. cristata
Binomial name
Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814)

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).

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.

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