| Chicoreus cnissodus | |
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| Apertural view of Chicoreus cnissodus | |
| 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. cnissodus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicoreus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889) |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Chicoreus cnissodus, common name the smelly 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 50 mm and 100 mm.
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along India and in the Pacific Ocean along Japan and New Caledonia.
| External identifiers for Chicoreus cnissodus | |
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| WoRMS | 558805 |