Chicoreus microphyllus

Chicoreus microphyllus
Chicoreus microphyllus
Chicoreus microphyllus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Chicoreus
Subgenus: Triplex
Species: C. microphyllus
Binomial name
Chicoreus microphyllus
(Lamarck, 1816)
Synonyms[1]
  • Chicoreus akritos Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976
  • Chicoreus (Triplex) akritos Radwin, G.E. & A. d' Attilio, 1976
  • Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Murex jousseaumei Poirier, 1883
  • Murex microphyllus Lamarck, 1816
  • Murex poirieri Jousseaume, 1881

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

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 124 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar and La Réunion and in the Indo-West Pacific (New Caledonia, Queensland)

References

  1. ^ a b Chicoreus microphyllus (Lamarck, 1816).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405911 on 28 June 2011.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III

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