| Chicoreus aculeatus | |
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| 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: | Triplex |
| Species: | C. aculeatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822) |
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Chicoreus aculeatus, common name the pendant 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 size of an adult shell varies between 38 mm and 65 mm.
This species occurs along South Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along Japan, the Philippines and the Moluccas.
| External identifiers for Chicoreus aculeatus | |
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| WoRMS | 558799 |