Muricidae – Muricopsinae: Favartia (Murexiella) brazieri (Angas, 1878) (‘Brazier’s murex’)
Synonym(s): brazieri Angas, 1877 tumidus Petterd, 1884.
Typical shell-length 10 mm. Lives subtidally amongst rocks and seaweed. Native. Endemic to southeastern and southwestern Australia (QLD, NSW, TAS, VIC, SA and WA). In Tasmanian waters, this is a rare species, probably confined to the N coast and Bass Strait islands.
Classification
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda – Sorbeoconcha
Order: Hypsogastropoda – Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricidae
Genus: Favartia
Localities for Favartia brazieri
Bellingham
Cape Portland: Home Beach
Flinders Island: Killiecrankie: foreshore
Flinders Island: The Dock
Flinders Island (unlocalised)
Greens Beach: main beach
Hunter Island (unlocalised)
Leith: foreshore
Low Head (unlocalised)
Lulworth: Tam O”Shanter Bay
Port Davey: Whalers Cove
Rocky Cape: Burgess Cove
Rocky Cape: Mary Anne Cove area
Tasmania (unlocalised)