| Chicomurex superbus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Chicomurex |
| Species: | C. superbus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby III, 1889) |
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Chicomurex superbus, common name : superb 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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The shell size varies between 40 mm and 85 mm
This species is found amongst seamounts and knolls in the Mascarene Basin, along North Queensland and Japan.