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Chicoreus

Chicoreus
Chicoreus ramosus.png
Ventral view of a shell of Chicoreus ramosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Chicoreus
Montfort, 1810
Type species
Murex ramosus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

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Synonyms
  • Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) Houart, 1992
  • Chicoreus (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810
  • Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex) Oyama, 1950
  • Chicoreus (Triplex) Perry, 1810
  • Euphyllon Jousseaume, 1880
  • Frondosaria Schlüter, 1838
  • Triplex Perry, 1810
  • Murex (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810

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Chicoreus is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.

Over 100 species are within the genus, with several subgenera, [1] including:

In 2011, Phyllonotus was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of Chicoreus.


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