Chicoreus aculeatus

Chicoreus aculeatus
Five views of a shell of Chicoreus aculeatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Subgenus:
Species:	C. aculeatus
Binomial name
Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
Chicoreus (Triplex) aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822) Chicoreus artemis Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976 Murex aculeatus Lamarck, 1822 (basionym)

Shell of Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822, 35.6 mm in length, tangle nets off , Philippines.

Chicoreus aculeatus, common name the pendant murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Description[]

The size of an adult shell varies between 38 mm and 65 mm.

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Distribution[]

This species occurs along the coast of South Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of Japan, the Philippines and the Moluccas.

References[]

• Lamarck, J. B. P. A., 1822 Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, vol. 7, p. 711 pp
• Houart, R., 1992. The genus Chicoreus and related genera (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 154(A): 1–188
• Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 103
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp

External links[]

• "Chicoreus (Triplex) aculeatus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
• MNHN. Paris: neotype

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