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Chicoreus 
Ventral view of a shell of Chicoreus ramosus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda (unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade NeogastropodaSuperfamily: Muricoidea Family: Muricidae Subfamily: Muricinae Genus: Chicoreus
Montfort, 1810[1]Type species Murex ramosus Linnaeus, 1758
(Linnaeus, 1758)Species See text
Synonyms[2] - Euphyllon Jousseaume, 1880
- Frondosaria Schlüter, 1838
- Triplex Perry, 1810
- Murex (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810
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.[3]
Species
There are over 100 species within the genus Chicoreus and several subgenera [1][4][2] including:
- Subgenus Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) Houart, 1992
- Chicoreus guillei Houart, 1985
- Chicoreus laqueatus (Sowerby, 1841)
- Chicoreus mocki Beals, 1997
- Chicoreus orchidiflorus Shikama, 1973
- Subgenus Chicoreus (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810.
- Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1942
- Chicoreus austramosus Vokes, 1978
- Chicoreus bundharmai Houart, 1992
- Chicoreus cornucervi (Röding, 1798)
- Chicoreus litos Vokes, 1978
- Chicoreus ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
- Subgenus Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) Swainson, 1833
In 2011 Phyllonotus was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of Chicoreus [5]
- Chicoreus erythrostomus (Swainson, 1831)
- Chicoreus regius (Swainson, 1821)
- Subgenus Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex) Oyama, 1950
- Chicoreus capucinus Lamarck, 1822
- Subgenus Chicoreus (Triplex) Perry, 1810
- Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus allaryi Houart, Quiquandon & Briano, 2004
- Chicoreus axicornis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus banksii (Sowerby, 1841)
- Chicoreus boucheti Houart, 1983
- Chicoreus bourguignati (Poirier, 1883)
- Chicoreus brevifrons (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus brunneus (Link, 1807)
- Chicoreus bullisi Vokes, 1974
- Chicoreus cervicornis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889)
- Chicoreus corrugatus Sowerby, 1841
- Chicoreus cosmani Abbott & Finlay, 1979
- Chicoreus crosnieri Houart, 1985
- Chicoreus damicornis (Hedley, 1903)
- Chicoreus denudatus (Perry, 1811)
- Chicoreus dodongi Houart, 1995
- Chicoreus dovi Houart, 1984
- Chicoreus dunni Petuch, 1987
- Chicoreus elisae Bozzetti, 1991
- Chicoreus florifer (Reeve, 1846)
- Chicoreus fosterorum Houart, 1989
- Chicoreus franchii Cossignani, 2005
- Chicoreus groschi Vokes, 1978
- Chicoreus ingridmariae Houart, 2010
- Chicoreus insularum (Pilsbry, 1921)
- Chicoreus jessicae Houart, 2008
- Chicoreus longicornis (Dunker, 1864)
- Chicoreus maurus (Broderip, 1833)
- Chicoreus mergus Vokes, 1974
- Chicoreus microphyllus (Lamarck, 1816)
- Chicoreus monicae Bozzetti, 2001
- Chicoreus nobilis Shikama, 1977
- Chicoreus paini Houart, 1983
- Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus paucifrondosus Houart, 1988
- Chicoreus peledi Vokes, 1978
- Chicoreus pisori Houart, 2007
- Chicoreus rachelcarsonae Petuch, 1987
- Chicoreus rossiteri (Crosse, 1872)
- Chicoreus rubescens (Broderip, 1833)
- Chicoreus ryosukei Shikama, 1978
- Chicoreus ryukyuensis Shikama, 1978
- Chicoreus saulii (Sowerby, 1841)
- Chicoreus setionoi Houart, 2001
- Chicoreus spectrum (Reeve, 1846)
- Chicoreus strigatus (Reeve, 1849)
- Chicoreus subpalmatus Houart, 1988
- Chicoreus territus (Reeve, 1845)
- Chicoreus thomasi (Crosse, 1872)
- Chicoreus torrefactus (Sowerby, 1841)
- Chicoreus trivialis (A. Adams, 1854)
- Chicoreus zululandensis Houart, 1989
- Synonymized species
- Chicoreus adustus Lamarck, 1822 : synonym of Chicoreus (Triplex) brunneus (Link, 1807)
- Chicoreus akritos Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976 : synonym of Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus (Lamarck, 1816)
- Chicoreus clausii (Dunker, 1879) : synonym of Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) varius clausii (Dunker, 1879)
- Chicoreus cloveri]' Houart, 1985: represented as Chicoreus (Triplex) cloveri Houart, 1985
- Chicoreus gubbi (Reeve, 1849) : synonym of Chicocenebra gubbi (Reeve, 1849)
- Chicoreus guionneti Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2002 : synonym of Siratus guionneti (Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2001)
- Chicoreus inflatus (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of Chicoreus (Chicoreus) ramosus
- Chicoreus perelegans Vokes, 1965 : synonym of Siratus perelegans (Vokes, 1965)
- Chicoreus subtilis Houart, 1977 : synonym of Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) orchidiflorus (Shikama, 1973)
- Chicoreus superbus (Sowerby, 1889) : synonym of Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889)
References
- ^ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 610.
- ^ a b "World Register of Marine Species". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487 on 2010-11-01
- ^ Rosenberg, Gary (2009). "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?mode=findsnail&genus=chicoreus&associatedname=&author=&year=&yearend=&Search=Search. Retrieved 2009-11-02.
- ^ Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114
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