Chicoreus palmarosae
| Chicoreus palmarosae | |
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| A shell of Chicoreus palmarosae | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Chicoreus |
| Subgenus: | Triplex |
| Species: | C. palmarosae |
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Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822) |
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The rose-branch murex, Chicoreus palmarosae, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails.
The size of an adult shell varies between 65 mm and 130 mm.
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Chagos Atoll and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Sri Lanka and Southwest Japan.
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