Chicoreus | |
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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) |
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Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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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.