Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda)

Marine Mollusca of isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia)

“…The entire exterior is sculptured with many low, thin, widely spaced, irregular axial lamellae, and the pale brown exterior, with paler spiral cords, indicates the presence of a calcite outer shell layer. The protoconch is blunt and paucispiral, smooth, of about 1Á1.5 whorls; that is, similar to those of Bedeva paivae and Haustrum vinosum (Tan 2003, fig. 2A,B) although not clearly differentiated from the teleoconch, very different from the planktotrophic 'sinusigera' of A. tritoniformis.…”

“…10D, H) (Kesteven 1902;Powell 1979:181), implying a long planktotrophic larval life. A. tritoniformis now lives uncommonly in several remote localities, subtidally on extremely exposed rocky shores, in northeastern New Zealand, from Cape Maria van Diemen to Tokomaru Bay, N of Gisborne (Richardson 1953;Tan 2003). A single poorly preserved fossil specimen of A. tritoniformis collected from the Anadara-Diala-Akera locality at Te Rewa Point, northern Hokianga Harbour, indicates that this species appeared in New Zealand at least as early as OIS 7, approximately coeval with the Te Piki records of A. kempae.…”

Morphological Development of the Radula of Four Species of the Neogastropod Family Muricidae

“…In ocenebrines, however, the bifid morphology is formed by two true marginal cusps, both completely separated from the radular membrane by a narrow, lobelike feature (Herbert et al, 2007;Pio et al, 2014). Rapanines generally do not retain this pseudo-bifid morphology into adulthood (Kool, 1987(Kool, , 1993; but see Tan, 2003: fig. 16H), as the ridge at the rachidian base edge becomes less cusp-like in larger juveniles and adults (Fujioka, 1984(Fujioka, , 1985Herbert et al, 2007).…”

Histomorphology of the female pallial gonoduct in Dicathais orbita (Neogastropoda, Muricidae): sperm passage, fertilization, and sperm storage potential

“…Key morphological features of the bursa copulatorix, seminal receptacles, and capsule, ingesting and albumen glands have been documented for many Muricidae (Kool 1993; Middelfart 1993; Tan 2003), and examined extensively in Ocenebra erinacea L innaeus 1758, Nucella ( Purpura ) lapillus L innaeus 1758 (Fretter 1941), Concholepas concholepas B ruguière 1789 (Ramorino 1975), Plicopurpura patula L innaeus 1758 (Kool 1988), Chorus giganteus L esson 1829 (Jaramillo 1991), Chicoreus brunneus L ink 1807 (Middelfart 1992a), Chicoreus ramosus L innaeus 1758 (Middelfart 1992b; Aungtonya 1997), and Chicoreus capucinus L amarck 1822 (Aungtonya 1997). Despite these morphological accounts, important aspects of female gonoduct function such as the passage of sperm, site of fertilization, and sexual selection remain unclear in the Muricidae.…”