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Hirtomurex
Three views of a shell of Hirtomurex teramachii, with the operculum in place
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Coralliophilinae
Genus:	Hirtomurex Coen, 1922
Type species
Fusus lamellosus Philippi, 1836
Synonyms
Coralliophila (Hirtomurex) Coen, 1922 Pseudomurex (Hirtomurex) Coen, 1922 (original rank)

Hirtomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae, the coral snails, within the family Muricidae, the murex snails and rock snails.

Species

Species within the genus Hirtomurex include:

• Hirtomurex filiaregis (Kurohara, 1959)
• Hirtomurex guoi Lai & B.-S. Jung, 2016
• Hirtomurex isshikiensis (Shikama, 1971)
• Hirtomurex kawamurai (Shikama, 1978)
• Hirtomurex marshalli Oliverio, 2008
• Hirtomurex nakamurai Kosuge, 1985
• Hirtomurex oyamai Kosuge, 1985
• Hirtomurex scobina (Kilburn, 1973)
• Hirtomurex senticosus (H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863)
• Hirtomurex squamosus (Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838)
• Hirtomurex tangaroa Marshall & Oliverio, 2009
• Hirtomurex taranui Marshall & Oliverio, 2009
• Hirtomurex teramachii (Kuroda, 1959)
• Hirtomurex winckworthi (Fulton, 1930)

References

1. Coen (1922). Atti Soc. ital. Sci. nat., Milano 61(1): 69.
2. ^ Hirtomurex Coen, 1922. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 10 July 2011.
3. Hirtomurex marshalli Oliverio, 2008. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
4. Hirtomurex tangaroa Marshall & Oliverio, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
5. Hirtomurex taranui Marshall & Oliverio, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

• Coen, G. (1922). Del genere Pseudomurex (Monterosato, 1872). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali, Pavia. 61: 68–71, pl. 2. note: as subgenus of Pseudomurex Monterosato, 1872
• Oliverio, M. (2008). Coralliophilinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) from the southwest Pacific. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 196: 481–585.

• Hirtomurex
• Gastropod genera