Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Muricoidea > Family Muricidae > Subfamily Aspellinae

Favartia Jousseaume, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Favartia (Murexiella)*	Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945	synonym
*Murex (Murexiella)*	Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945	synonym
*Murexiella*	Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945	synonym

Children

Favartia bojadorensis (Locard, 1897)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: ヒシヨウラク属

Literature

original description	Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338.
basis of record	Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.
additional source	Jousseaume, F. (1882). Etude des Purpuridae et description d'espèces nouvelles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 7: 314-348.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Favartia Jousseaume, 1880. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206015

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Environment

marine

Importance

IUCN:
Red List status VU 1998 This species is vulnerable and is considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

This species is vulnerable and is considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

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2016-12-22 by Philippe Bouchet

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