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

Gracilipurpura Jousseaume, 1880

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hadriania*	Bucquoy & Dautzenberg, 1882	synonym
*Tritonalia (Hadriania)*	Bucquoy & Dautzenberg, 1882	synonym

Children

Gracilipurpura craticulata (Bucquoy & Dautzenberg, 1882)

Literature

original description	Jousseaume, F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste. 2(42): 335-338.
basis of record	Houart, R. (2024). Living Muricidae of the world. Ocenebrinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 238 pp.
additional source	Vermeij, G. J.; Snyder, M. A. (2018). Proposed genus-level classification of large species of Fusininae (Gastropoda, Fasciolariidae). Basteria. 82(4-6): 57-82.
redescription	Jousseaume, F. (1882). Etude des Purpuridae et description d'espèces nouvelles. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 7: 314-348.
subsequent type designation	Fassio, G.; Russo, P.; Bonomolo, G.; Fedosov, A. E.; Modica, M. V.; Nocella, E.; Oliverio, M. (2022). A molecular framework for the systematics of the Mediterranean spindle-shells (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Fasciolariidae, Fusininae). Mediterranean Marine Science. 23(3): 623-636.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gracilipurpura 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:446051