Muricopsis cristata

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 <small>Millet, 1865</small> (junior homonym of Fusus asperrimus T. Brown, 1827)
• Fusus dodecanesinus <small>Bevilacqua, 1928</small>
• Murex blainvillei <small>Payraudeau, 1826</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. aterrima <small>Dautzenberg, 1890</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. bicolor <small>Monterosato, 1878</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. gracilis <small>Monterosato in Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. gracilis <small>Monterosato, 1870</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. minor <small>Praus, 1906</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. rosea <small>Monterosato, 1878 in Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. trophoniformis <small>Monterosato, 1884</small>
• Murex blainvillei var. violacea <small>Monterosato, in Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882</small>
• Murex blainvillii <small>Payraudeau, 1826</small>
• Murex blainvillii var. bicolor <small>Monterosato, 1878</small>
• Murex cataphractus <small>Sowerby, 1834</small>
• Murex cinosurus <small>Chiereghini in Nardo, 1847</small>
• Murex cristatus <small>Brocchi, 1814</small> (basionym)
• Murex cristatus var. adellus <small>de Gregorio, 1885</small>
• Murex cristatus var. ampa <small>de Gregorio, 1885</small>
• Murex cristatus var. ampus <small>de Gregorio, 1885</small>
• Murex cristatus var. berdica <small>de Gregorio, 1885</small> (synonym)
• Murex cristatus var. berdicus <small>de Gregorio, 1885</small>
• Murex cristatus var. emus <small>de Gregorio, 1885</small>
• Murex cristatus var. expallescens <small>Tapparone Canefri, 1869</small>
• Murex cristatus var. inermis <small>Philippi, 1836</small>
• Murex dentatus <small>Anton, 1838</small>
• Murex inermis <small>Philippi, 1836</small>
• Murex inermis trifasciata <small>Nordsieck, 1972</small>
• Murex pliciferus <small>Bivona-Bernardi, 1832</small>
• Murex porrectus <small>Locard, 1886</small>
• Murex pustulatus <small>Locard, 1899</small>
• Murex rudis <small>Risso, 1826</small>
• Murex rugulosa <small>O.G. Costa, 1861</small>
• Murex subspinosus <small>A. Adams, 1854</small>
• Muricidea blainvillei [sic] (misspelling of Muricidea blainvillii <small>(Payraudeau, 1826))</small>
• Muricidea blainvillei var. trophoniformis <small>Weinkauff, 1868</small>)
• Muricidea polliaeformis <small>Weinkauff, 1868</small>
• Muricopsis (Muricopsis) cristata <small>(Brocchi, 1814)</small>· accepted, alternate representation
• Muricopsis atra <small>Nordsieck, 1972</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei <small>(Payraudeau, 1826)</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. hispida <small>Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. horrida <small>Monterosato in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. oblonga <small>Stalio in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. rosea <small>Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. spinulata <small>Coen, 1937</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. spinulosa <small>Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. spinulosa <small>Stalio in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. umbilicata <small>Coen, 1930</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillei var. violacea <small>Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillii <small>(Payraudeau, 1826)</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillii var. horrida <small>Monterosato in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillii var. oblonga <small>Stalio in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis blainvillii var. spinulosa <small>Stalio in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis cristatus <small>(Brocchi, 1814)</small>
• Muricopsis cristatus major <small>Settepassi, 1977</small>
• Muricopsis cristatus pungens <small>Monterosato in Settepassi, 1977</small>
• Muricopsis cristatus spinulatus <small>Stalio in Settepassi, 1977</small>
• Muricopsis glutinosa <small>Palazzi & Villari, 2001</small> (dubious synonym)
• Muricopsis hispida <small>Monterosato in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis inermis <small>(Philippi, 1836)</small>
• Muricopsis inermis trifasciata <small>Nordsieck, 1972</small>
• Muricopsis spinulosa <small>Stalio in Coen, 1933</small>
• Muricopsis spinulosa obsoleta <small>Nordsieck, 1972</small>
• Ocinebra blainvillei [sic] (misspelling of Ocinebra blainvillii <small>(Payraudeau, 1826))</small>
• Ocinebra blainvillei var. elongata <small>Locard & Caziot, 1900</small>
• Ocinebra blainvillei var. ventricosa <small>Locard & Caziot, 1900</small>
• Ocinebrina blainvillei <small>(Payraudeau, 1826)</small>
• Ocinebrina blainvillei var. hirsuta <small>Pallary, 1904</small>
• Ocinebrina blainvillii <small>(Payraudeau, 1826)</small>
• Pollia coccinea <small>Monterosato, 1884</small> (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&nbsp;mm and 35&nbsp;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 &#91;Berolini&#93;: 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 &#91;"1853"&#93;). 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 &#91;1867&#93;. Vol. 2: pp.&nbsp;VI + 512. &#91;1868&#93;
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• Muricopsis cristata - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliography
• Muricopsis cristata - NCBI Taxonomy Database
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• Muricopsis cristata - Encyclopedia of Life