| Adusta Murex Chicoreus brunneus |
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| Five views of a shell of Chicoreus brunneus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Chicoreus |
| Species: | C. brunneus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicoreus brunneus (Link, 1807) |
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Chicoreus brunneus, common name the adusta murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails. [1]
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The adult shell size of this species varies between 25 mm and 115 mm in length.
This sea snail is found widely spread in the Indo-West Pacific, and occurs from east Africa to Polynesia, southern Japan, New South Wales and New Caledonia, Australia.[6]