Hexaplex

Hexaplex is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily muracinae of the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails.

Hexaplex
Temporal range: 61.7 - 0 Ma
Two views of a shell of Hexaplex cichoreum
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Hexaplex
Perry, 1811
Type species
Hexaplex cichoreum (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
  • Aaronia A. H. Verrill, 1950
  • Bassia Jousseaume, 1880
  • Bassiella Wenz, 1941
  • Centronotus Swainson, 1833 (invalid: junior homonym of Centronotus Schneider, 1801 [Pisces])
  • Hexaplex (Hexaplex) Perry, 1810
  • Hexaplex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840
  • Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) Cossmann, 1921
  • Murex (Muricanthus) Swainson, 1840
  • Muricanthus Swainson, 1840
  • Murithais Grant & Gale, 1931 (invalid: junior objective synonym of Trunculariopsis Cossmann, 1921)
  • Purpura Röding, 1798 (invalid: junior homonym of Purpura Bruguière, 1789)
  • Truncularia Monterosato, 1917 (invalid: junior homonym of Truncularia Wiegmann, 1832 [Bryozoa]; Trunculariopsis is a replacement name)

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Paleocene to the Quaternary period (age range: from 61.7 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.

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