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Description of two new muricid species (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae) from the western Atlantic and the eastern Pacific
Houart, R. (2019). Description of two new muricid species (Gastropoda: Muricidae: Muricopsinae) from the western Atlantic and the eastern Pacific. The Nautilus 133(3-4): 85-93
In: The Nautilus. Bailey Matthews Shell Museum: Silver Spring. ISSN 0028-1344, more
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Keywords
    Favartia Jousseaume, 1880 [WoRMS]; Muricopsis Bucquoy & Dautzenberg, 1882 [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Favartia; Muricopsis new species; Brazil; Panama; eastern Pacific
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Abstract
    Two new species of Muricidae are described from Brazil and from the Pacific coast of Panama. Favartia aquinoi new species from Brazil is compared with the related F. glypta (M. Smith, 1938), as well as with F. cellulosa (Conrad, 1846) and F. levicula (Dail, 1889). Muricopsis vassarti new species is described from the Pacific coast of Panama and compared with three other Muricopsis species from the Eastern Pacific, M. zeteki Hertlein and Strong, 1951, M. westonensis Myers and D'Attilio, 1990 and M. tanpini Garrigues, 2016.
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