| Description | Vokesimurex messorius, common name the Mesorius murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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| Rank | species |
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Vokesimurex : Vokesimurex messorius |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Vokesimurex : Vokesimurex messorius |
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| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted |
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Classification
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| Generic Name | Vokesimurex |
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| Scientific Name | Vokesimurex messorius (G.B.Sowerby II, 1841) |
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Vokesimurex messorius | species | belongs to Murex | stated with evidence | Sowerby, 1841 | | Vokesimurex messorius | species | belongs to Murex (Haustellum) | stated with evidence | Trechmann, 1933 | | Vokesimurex messorius | species | belongs to Murex | stated without evidence | Barrios, 1960 | | Vokesimurex messorius | species | belongs to Murex (Murex) | stated with evidence | Vokes, 1963 | | Vokesimurex messorius | species | belongs to Murex (Haustellum) | stated with evidence | Vokes, 1989 | | Vokesimurex messorius | species | belongs to Vokesimurex | stated with evidence | Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 |
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| Extant Size (PBDB) | 1 (100%) |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 23.0 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Muricidae) |
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| Vision | limited (based on Gastropoda) |
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| Diet | carnivore (based on Muricidae) |
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| Taphonomy | aragonite (based on Gastropoda) |
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| 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. |
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| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vokesimurex_messorius |
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| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1841 | Murex messorius Sowerby figs. pl. 194, fig. 93 |
| 1841 | Murex nigrescens Sowerby II p. 198 figs. fig. 113 |
| 1845 | Murex funiculatus Reeve figs. pl. 19, fig. 74 |
| 1887 | Murex sutilis White p. 137 figs. pl. 11, fig. 11 |
| 1911 | Murex messorius Brown and Pilsbry p. 352 |
| 1917 | Murex messorius Maury p. 101 |
| 1922 | Murex messorius Olsson p. 131 |
| 1933 | Murex (Haustellum) messorius Trechmann p. 38 |
| 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 |
| Brown A. P., Pilsbry H. A. (1911) Fauna of the Gatun Formation, Isthmus of Panama, Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelphia 63 2, 336-373 |
| Maury C. J. (1917) Santo Domingo type sections and fossils, Bulletins of American Paleontology 5 30, 1-43 |
| Olsson A. A. (1922) The Miocene of Northern Costa Rica, Bulletins of American Paleontology 9 39, 1-309 |
| Barrios M. (1960) Algunos moluscos del Terciario Medio de Colombia, Boletin Geologico 6 1-3, 213-306 |
| Vokes E. H. (1963) Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region: Part 1 - Murex sensus stricto, Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 1 4, 151-163 |
| Vokes E. H. (1989) Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 8. The Family Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletins of American Paleontology, Bulletins of American Paleontology 97 332, 1-94 |
| Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221 |
| 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 |
| Garrigues B. & Lamy D. (2019). Inventaire des Muricidae récoltés au cours de la campagne MADIBENTHOS du MNHN en Martinique (Antilles Françaises) et description de 12 nouvelles espèces des genres Dermomurex, Attilosa, Acanthotrophon, Favartia, Muricopsis et Pygmaepterys (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Xenophora Taxonomy. 23: 22-59. - 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 |
| Merle, D.; Garrigues, B.; Pointier, J. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648, pp - via Catalogue of Life |
Vokesimurex messorius
