Two new Murexsul (Gastropoda : Muricidae) from Australia

Abstract

Murexsul asper n. sp. is described from Western Australia and is compared with M. auratus Kuroda & Habe, 1971 from Japan; M. queenslandicus n. sp. is described from Queensland. Both new species lie in a group of small species, including M. charcoti (Houart, 1991) and M. micra (Houart, 2001), from New Caledonia.