Murex pacificus Lichtenstein, 1794

Geiger, Daniel L., 2022, Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein’s (1794) Catalogus Rerum Naturalium Rarissimarum, pars secunda. Facsimile edition and annotated translation, Zootaxa 5127 (1), pp. 1-126 : 117

Murex pacificus Lichtenstein, 1794

These two species, 2 inches and 1 3/ 4 inches in size, respectively, cannot be identified and are nomina dubia. The former was said to come from the “South Seas”. Murex australasiae was cited by Röding (1798: 113) in lot 1462 under his Buccinium lamellosum: Das blättrige braune Kinkhorn [the foliaceous brown kinkhorn] from the south sea. The species is also indicated as being rare with a single exclamation point, in the same style that Lichtenstein used in his sales catalogues.