Vokesimurex

Vokesimurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Vokesimurex
Shell of Vokesimurex malabaricus (museum specimen: Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Vokesimurex Petuch, 1994
Type species
Murex messorius Sowerby II, 1841

Species

Species within the genus Vokesimurex include:

• Vokesimurex aliquantulus Houart & Héros, 2015
• Vokesimurex anniae (M. Smith, 1940)^[2]
• Vokesimurex bayeri Petuch, 2001^[3]
• Vokesimurex bazarutensis S. G. Veldsman & J. H. Veldsman, 2021
• Vokesimurex blakeanus (Vokes, 1967)^[4]
• Vokesimurex bobyini (Kosuge, 1983)^[5]
• Vokesimurex cabritii (Bernardi, 1859)^[6]
• Vokesimurex chrysostoma (G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)^[7]
• † Vokesimurex coulsoni (Ladd, 1977)
• Vokesimurex danilai (Houart, 1992)^[8]
• Vokesimurex dentifer (Watson, 1883)^[9]
• Vokesimurex dolichourus (Ponder & Vokes, 1988)^[10]
• Vokesimurex donmoorei (Bullis, 1964)^[11]
• Vokesimurex elenensis (Dall, 1909)^[12]
• Vokesimurex gallinago (G.B. Sowerby III, 1903)^[13]
• Vokesimurex garciai (Petuch, 1987)
• Vokesimurex hamanni (Myers & Hertz, 1994)^[14]
• Vokesimurex hirasei (Dautzenberg, 1915)^[15]
• Vokesimurex kiiensis (Kira, 1959)^[16]
• Vokesimurex lividus (Carpenter, 1857)^[17]
• Vokesimurex malabaricus (E. A. Smith, 1894)^[18]
• Vokesimurex messorius (G.B. Sowerby II, 1841)^[19]
• Vokesimurex micropurdyae Houart & Rosado, 2018
• Vokesimurex mindanaoensis (G.B. Sowerby II, 1841)^[20]
• Vokesimurex multiplicatus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1895)^[21]
• † Vokesimurex nasongoensis (Ladd, 1977)
• Vokesimurex olssoni (Vokes, 1967)^[22]
• Vokesimurex parkrynieensis S. G. Veldsman & J. H. Veldsman, 2021
• Vokesimurex purdyae (Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976)^[23]
• Vokesimurex rectaspira Houart & Héros, 2015
• Vokesimurex rectirostris (G.B. Sowerby II, 1841)^[24]
• Vokesimurex recurvirostris (Broderip, 1833)^[25]
• Vokesimurex rubidus (F. C. Baker, 1897)^[26]
• Vokesimurex ruthae (Vokes, 1988)^[27]
• Vokesimurex sallasi (Rehder & Abbott, 1951)^[28]
• Vokesimurex samui (Petuch, 1987)^[29]
• Vokesimurex sobrinus (A. Adams, 1863)^[30]
• Vokesimurex tricoronis (Berry, 1960)^[31]
• Vokesimurex tryoni (Hidalgo in Tryon, 1880)^[32]
• † Vokesimurex wanneri (K. Martin, 1916)
• Vokesimurex woodringi (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)^[33]
• Vokesimurex yuhsiuae Houart, 2014

Species brought into synonymy

• Vokesimurex bellegladeensis (E. H. Vokes, 1963):^[34] synonym of Vokesimurex sallasi (Rehder & Abbott, 1951) (junior subjective synonym)
• Vokesimurex bellus (Reeve, 1845): synonym of Vokesimurex chrysostoma (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834)
• Vokesimurex coriolis (Houart, 1990): synonym of Vokesimurex dentifer coriolis (Houart, 1990) represented as Vokesimurex dentifer (Watson, 1883)
• Vokesimurex lindajoycae (Petuch, 1987): synonym of Vokesimurex anniae (M. Smith, 1940)
• Vokesimurex morrisoni Petuch & Sargent, 2011: synonym of Vokesimurex bellegladeensis (E. H. Vokes, 1963)
• Vokesimurex tweedianus (Macpherson, 1962): synonym of Haustellum tweedianum (Macpherson, 1962)