Babelomurex

Babelomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[2]

Babelomurex
A shell of Babelomurex deburghiae (Reeve, 1857), 22.6 mm in length, taken in tangle nets at 150 to 200 m, off Panglao Island, Bohol, in the Philippines
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Coralliophilinae
Genus:	Babelomurex Coen, 1922[1]
Type species
Fusus babelis Requien, 1848
Synonyms[2]
Babelomurex (Lamellatiaxis) Habe & Kosuge, 1970 Echinolatiaxis Kosuge, 1979 Laevilatiaxis Kosuge, 1979 Lamellatiaxis Habe & Kosuge, 1970 Langfordia Dall, 1924 Latiaxis (Babelomurex) Coen, 1922 Latiaxis (Echinolatiaxis) Kosuge, 1979 Latiaxis (Laevilatiaxis) Kosuge, 1979 Latiaxis (Lamellatiaxis) Habe & Kosuge, 1970 Latiaxis (Tolema) Iredale, 1929 Pseudomurex (Babelomurex) Coen, 1922 (original rank) Tarantellaxis Habe, 1970 Tolema Iredale, 1929

Species

Species within the genus Babelomurex include:^[2]

• Babelomurex armatus Sowerby III, 1912^[3]
• Babelomurex atlantidis Oliverio & Gofas, 2006^[4]
• Babelomurex benoiti (Tiberi, 1855)^[5]
• Babelomurex bernardi (K. Nicolay, 1984)
• Babelomurex blowi (Ladd, 1976)
• Babelomurex capensis (Tomlin, 1928)
• Babelomurex cariniferoides (Shikama, T., 1966)^[6]
• Babelomurex cariniferus (Sowerby, 1834)^[7]
• Babelomurex centimanus Kosuge, 1985^[8]
• Babelomurex cookae Kosuge, 1988
• Babelomurex couturieri (Jousseaume, 1898)^[9]
• Babelomurex cristatus (Kosuge, 1979)^[10]
• Babelomurex dalli (Emerson & D'Attilio 1963)^[11]
• Babelomurex deburghiae (Reeve, 1857)^[12]
• Babelomurex depressispiratus Oliverio, 2008^[13]
• Babelomurex deroyorum D'Attilio & Myers, 1984
• Babelomurex diadema (A. Adams, 1854)^[14]
• Babelomurex echinatus (Azuma, M., 1970)^[15]
• Babelomurex fax (F. M. Bayer, 1971)^[16]
• Babelomurex finchii (Fulton, H.C., 1930)^[17]
• Babelomurex fruticosus (Kosuge, 1979)^[18]
• Babelomurex gemmatus (Shikama, 1966)
• Babelomurex glaber Kosuge, 1998^[19]
• Babelomurex habui (Azuma, 1971)
• Babelomurex helenae (Azuma, 1973)
• Babelomurex hindsi (Carpenter, 1857)
• Babelomurex hirasei Shikama, 1964^[20]
• Babelomurex indicus (Smith, 1899)^[21]
• Babelomurex japonicus (Dunker, R.W., 1882)^[22]
• Babelomurex juliae (Clench & Aguayo, 1939)
• Babelomurex kawamurai (Kira, 1959):^[23] forms a complex
• Babelomurex kawanishii (Kosuge, 1979)
• Babelomurex kinoshitai (Fulton, 1930)^[24]
• Babelomurex kuroharai (Habe, 1970)
• Babelomurex laevicostatus (Kosuge, 1981)
• Babelomurex latipinnatus (Azuma, 1961)
• Babelomurex lischkeanus (Dunker, R.W., 1882)^[25]
• Babelomurex longispinosus (Suzuki, 1972)^[26]
• Babelomurex macrocephalus Oliverio, 2008^[27]
• Babelomurex mansfieldi (McGinty, 1940)^[28]
• Babelomurex marumai Habe & Kosuge, 1970^[29]
• Babelomurex mediopacificus (Kosuge, 1979)
• Babelomurex meimiaoae S.-I Huang & Y.-F. Huang, 2019
• Babelomurex memimarumai Kosuge, 1985
• Babelomurex microspinosus Kosuge, 1988^[30]
• Babelomurex miyokoae Kosuge, 1985
• Babelomurex nagahorii (Kosuge, 1980)
• Babelomurex nakamigawai (Kuroda, 1959)^[31]
• Babelomurex nakayasui (Shikama, 1970)^[32]
• Babelomurex natalabies Oliverio, 2008^[33]
• Babelomurex neocaledonicus Kosuge & Oliverio, 2001^[34]
• Babelomurex oldroydi (I. S. Oldroyd, 1929)
• Babelomurex pacei (Petuch, 1987)
• Babelomurex pallox Oliverio, 2008^[35]
• Babelomurex pervernicosus (Suzuki, 1972)
• Babelomurex princeps (Melvill, 1912)^[36]
• Babelomurex problematicus (Kosuge, 1980)^[37]
• Babelomurex purpuraterminus (Kosuge, 1979)^[38]
• Babelomurex purpuratus (Chenu, 1859)^[39]
• Babelomurex purus (Kosuge, 1985)^[40]
• Babelomurex ricinuloides (Schepman, 1911)^[41]
• Babelomurex scalariformis (Lamarck, 1822)
• Babelomurex sentix (Bayer, 1971)^[42]
• Babelomurex shingomarumai (Kosuge, 1981)^[43]
• Babelomurex spinaerosae (Shikama, 1970)
• Babelomurex spinosus Hirase, 1908^[44]
• Babelomurex squalidus Kosuge, 1985^[45]
• Babelomurex stenospinus (Kuroda, 1961)^[46]
• Babelomurex takahashii (Kosuge, 1979)^[47]
• Babelomurex tectumsinensis (Deshayes, 1856)^[48]
• Babelomurex tosanus (Hirase, 1908)^[49]
• Babelomurex tuberosus (Kosuge, 1980)^[50]
• Babelomurex tumidus (Kosuge, 1980)
• Babelomurex virginiae Kosuge & Oliverio, 2004^[51]
• Babelomurex wormaldi (Powell, 1971)
• Babelomurex yamatoensis Kosuge, 1986
• Babelomurex yumimarumai Kosuge, 1985

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Species brought into synonymy

• Babelomurex asper (A. Adams, 1855): synonym of Coralliophila aspera (A. Adams, 1855)
• Babelomurex fearnleyi (Emerson, W.K. & A. d' Attilio, 1965):^[53] synonym of Coralliophila fearnleyi (Emerson & D'Attilio, 1965)
• Babelomurex fusiformis (Martens, 1902): synonym of Mipus fusiformis (Martens, 1902)
• Babelomurex gili Kosuge, 1990:^[54] synonym of Babelomurex tectumsinensis (Deshayes, 1856)
• Babelomurex multispinosus Shikama, 1966: synonym of Babelomurex spinosus (Hirase, 1908)
• Babelomurex multispinosa Shikama 1966:^[55] synonym of Babelomurex spinosus (Hirase, 1908)