Murex brevispina, also known as the Short-spined murex, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.[1]
Murex brevispina, also known as the Short-spined murex, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.
Subspecies Murex brevispina brevispina Lamarck, 1822 Murex brevispina macgillivrayi Dohrn, 1862 Murex brevispina ornamentalis Ponder & E. H. Vokes, 1988 Murex brevispina senilis Jousseaume, 1874 Murex brevispina toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2020 Murex brevispina albus Bozzetti, 2020: synonym of Murex brevispina toliaraensis Bozzetti, 2020 (invalid: junior homonym of Murex craticulatus var. albus Scacchi, 1836; M. brevispina toliaraensis is a replacement name)
