Abstract

A new species of the genus Murex (Family Muricidae) is described from an island in the Andaman Islands chain off Pang-nga Province, southwest Thailand in the Andamanian Subprovince. This geographical subprovince is located in the eastern Andaman Sea, East Indian Ocean. Murex suttipraneeae sp. nov. is conchologically differentiated from a closely related species; Murex pecten Lightfoot, 1786 and its complex from other geographical provinces around the western Pacific rim.

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