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Vokesimurex

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Description

Vokesimurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vokesimurex, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4366200	https://www.gbif.org/species/4366200
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	119897	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=119897

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Vokesimurex

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Muricinae	da Costa 1776
genus	Vokesimurex	Petuch 1994

Scientific Name

Vokesimurex Petuch, 1994

Name Published In

Petuch E.J. (1994). Atlas of Florida fossil shells. Evanston, Illinois: Chicago Spectrum Press. 394 pp., 20 figs., 100 pls.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Vokesimurex	genus	belongs to Muricinae	stated without evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

9 (82%)

First Recorded Appearance

23.0 - 20.4 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Muricidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Muricidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, and K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vokesimurex

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Murex polynematicus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex aliquantulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex anniae species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex bayeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex bellegladeensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	0.78 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex blakeanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex bobyini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex cabritii species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex chrysostoma species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex danilai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex dentifer species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex dolichourus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex donmoorei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex elenensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex gallinago species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex garciai species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex hamanni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex hirasei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex kiiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex lividus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex malabaricus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex messorius species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		100	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex micropurdyae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex mindanaoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex multiplicatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex olssoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex polynematicus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		14	23.0 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Vokesimurex purdyae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex rectaspira species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex rectirostris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex recurvirostris species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	11.6 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Vokesimurex rubidus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	3.60 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex ruthae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex sallasi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex samui species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex sobrinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex tricoronis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex tryoni species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Vokesimurex woodringi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Vokesimurex yuhsiuae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1994	Vokesimurex Petuch
2010	Vokesimurex Landau and Marques da Silva p. 62

References

Hendy A. J. W., Buick D. P., et al (2008) Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

CAAB (Mar 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Oct 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CAAB (Oct 2012) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Petuch, 1994 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Petuch E.J. (1994). Atlas of Florida fossil shells. Evanston, Illinois: Chicago Spectrum Press. 394 pp., 20 figs., 100 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species

Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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