Chicoreus asianus

Chicoreus asianus
Chicoreus asianus
Shell of Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1842, measuring 82.4 mm in height, taken by gill nets at 20 fathoms on rocks off Minabe, in Japan.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Chicoreus
Subgenus: Chicoreus
Species: C. asianus
Binomial name
Chicoreus asianus
Kuroda, 1942
Synonyms[1]

Chicoreus orientalis Zhang, 1965
Murex sinensis Reeve, 1845

Chicoreus asianus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Contents

Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1942.  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=398999 on 24 April 2010.

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