This publication presents a mid-20th century taxonomic contribution to the systematics of Coralliophilinae (Muricidae) from Japanese waters, focusing on species historically placed in Latiaxis and Coralliophila. The work is based entirely on comparative shell morphology and documents several taxa associated with coral habitats around southwestern Japan. The study introduces multiple new nominal taxa and provides detailed conchological diagnoses, emphasizing teleoconch sculpture, axial ribbing, spiral keel development, and aperture morphology. Species are illustrated on Plates 1–2 and compared with previously described Indo-Pacific coralliophiline forms. The paper reflects the taxonomic framework of its time, when Babelomurex was treated as a subgeneric placement within Latiaxis. Material examined originates primarily from Japanese localities including Okinoshima, Himeshima, and Kashiwazima, and is associated with coral-bearing substrates. The work is significant as an early regional treatment of western Pacific coralliophilines and as the original source for several names later transferred to Babelomurex and other genera in modern classifications. The publication remains taxonomically relevant because it contains original descriptions, type designations, and figures that underpin subsequent nomenclatural and systematic revisions within Coralliophilinae.
Tokio Shikama (Thu,) studied this question.