MALACOLOGIA, 2(1): 1-41
SUPRASPECIFIC GROUPS IN THE SUBFAMILIES MURICINAE AND TRITONALUNAE
(GASTROPODA: MURICIDAE)
Emily H. Yokes
Department of Geology, Ти1але University
New Orleans, Louisiana, U. S. A.
ABSTRACT
At least 90 supraspecific names have been proposed for groups in the subfamilies
Muricinae and Tritonaliinae.^ This paper is an attempt to assess the validity of these
names, and herein, 36 taxa are recognized as representing valid groupings, 56 are
placed in synonymy, and many emendations and errors are disposed of. The names
accepted as valid, either on the generic or subgeneric level, are: Murex s.S.,
Haustellum, Bolinus, Harmalia, Chicoreus, Stratus, Phyllonotus, Hexaplex, Murexsul,
Murexiella, Maxwellia, Pterynotus, Naquetia, Pterochelus, Nothotyphis, Poirieria,
Paziella, Panamurex, and Muricopsis in the Muricinae; and Tritonalia, Hadriania,
Miocenebra, Jaton, Pterorytis, Ceratostoma,Pteropurpura, Ocinebrellus, Calcitrapessa,
Purpurellus, Poropteron, Homalocantha, Eupleura, Vitularia,Crassilabrum, Urosalpinx,
and Octnebrina in the Tritonaliinae. In addition, 2 specific homonyms are renamed:
Tritonalia inermicosta Q^urex fasciatus Sowerby, not Gmelin) and Tntono/M {Hadriania)
craticx-loides (Murex craticulatus Brocchi, not Linnaeus).
INTRODUCTION
The Tenth Edition of Linnaeus' Sysiem^;
Naturae (1758) listed 59 species of
BioStor
