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Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World

Didier MerleBernard GarriguesJean-Pierre Pointier

其他書名	Part Muricopsinae. ...
出版	ConchBooks, 2022
ISBN	39486032439783948603243
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xrABzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Almost forty five years ago, two legendary semi-popular books on the family Muricidae were published in the same year: Radwin & D'Attilio (1976) and Fair (1976). Knowledge on the family has, however, increased enormously during the last forty years. Many new species and new genera have been added and progress in phylogenetic analysis has changed the view of the subfamily classification. The goal of "Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World" is to fill this gap of 45 years and provide a new synthesis, taking into account these additions and progress. The first volume, published in 2011, was dedicated to the Muricinae. This new volume is dedicated to the Muricopsinae. This subfamily, as traditionally conceived, includes 16 genera, but it likely constitutes a polyphyletic assemblage. The authors divided it into five informal groups, including the Muricopsinae (s.s.) group; the Homalocantha-Eofavartia-Subpterynotus group; and the Pradoxa-Bizetiella assemblage. The subfamily place of the two last groups should be regarded as provisional. These 16 genera represent together around 375 valid names of extinct (90) and extant (285) species. The taxonomic treatment of each genus includes a detailed description of the type species with one or several related text-figures, a comment on the limits of variation and the generic characters, a list of the extinct and extant species (with synonyms) and a geological part including the first appearance and the stratigraphic range. 371 species are represented in 153 plates. Of these 371 species, 333 species are illustrated by their type material. --