Ocenebra brevirobusta, Houart, 2000

Houart, Roland, 2000, New species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from the northeastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea, Zoosystema 22 (3), pp. 459-469 : 460-461

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5403721
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038F3842-CA18-FF90-B35D-FAC4FD5518A9
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Ocenebra brevirobusta
status	sp. nov.

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Ocenebra brevirobusta View in CoL n. sp.

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Murex torosus – Sowerby 1841: 174, fig. 39. – Kiener 1842: 82, pl. 33, fig. 2. – Reeve 1845: pl. 34, fig. 180. – Sowerby 1879: 45, sp. 209, fig. 195. – etc. (not Murex torosus Lamarck 1816 : pl. 441, fig. 5).

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype in MNHN; paratypes: 3 ( MNHN), 3 ( SMNH), 1 ( MHNG), 1 ( BMNH), 3 (coll. R. Houart).

ETYMOLOGY. — From the Latin brevis: short, and robusta: strong.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Essaouira (ex Mogador). Morocco, Atlantic, intertidal, South of harbour pier, 40 lv and dd (holotype and paratypes).

El Jadida. Rocks pools, intertidal, 8 lv ( MNHN).

Asilah. Beach, in shell debris, 1 dd ( MNHN).

Rabat. Lahlou, beach, in shell debris, 9 dd ( MNHN).

Temara. Beach “Sables d’Or”, 33°55’N, 07°00’W, rocks and silt, 0-2 m, 2 lv ( MNHN).

Safi. On the market, 2 dd ( MNHN).

Agadir. Between stones and on the beach, low tide, 12 dd (coll. F. Swinnen).

Morocco. No other data, 7 lv (coll. R. Houart).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Morocco, Atlantic, Essaouira (ex Mogador), intertidal, South of harbour pier.

DISTRIBUTION. — Atlantic, North Africa, Morocco. O. brevirobusta and O. erinaceus are sympatric at Asilah, Morocco, while, from the few samples examined, O. brevirobusta does apparently not occur at Tanger, where only O. erinaceus was collected. In a few other Moroccan localities ( El Jadida, Rabat, Temora, Essaouira [formerly Mogador], Agadir), O. brevirobusta was collected alone, on rocks, rocky reef flat, or on the pier, without any specimen of O. erinaceus ( Fig. 6 View FIG ).