Babelomurex memimarumai Kosuge, 1985

Oliverio, Marco, 2008, Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 481-586 : 522-523

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491428
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scientific name	Babelomurex memimarumai Kosuge, 1985
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Babelomurex memimarumai Kosuge, 1985 View in CoL

Fig. 60

Babelomurex memimarumai Kosuge, 1985b: 51 View in CoL , pl. 17, figs 5, 7-8.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype IMT 85-19 View Materials [not seen], figured by Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: pl. 4, fig. 3, pl. 29, fig. 4.

TYPE LOCALITY. — South China Sea.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — North of New Caledonia. LAGON: stn 538, Lagon Nord, 19°07’S, 163°21’E, 195 m, 1 dd (Fig. 60). Futuna. MUSORSTOM 7: stn DW 499, 14°20’S, 178°05’W, 290-395 m, 1 dd GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION. — Western Pacific , from the South China Sea to the Philippines (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985: 15). Northern New Caledonia, Norfolk Ridge, Wallis and Futuna, empty shells in 195-395 m.

REMARKS. — Distinguished from Babelomurex cariniferoides by its coarser sculpture and broader base. Many specimens are difficult to distinguish from B. kinoshitai ( Fulton, 1930) , which has a more angulate base and the spines at the shoulder more curved adapically.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Mollusca
Class	Gastropoda
Order	Neogastropoda
Family	Muricidae
Genus	Babelomurex