| Chicoreus palmarosae | |
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| A shell of Chicoreus palmarosae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Chicoreus |
| Subgenus: | Triplex |
| Species: | C. palmarosae |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822) |
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Chicoreus palmarosae, common name the rose-branch 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 size of an adult shell varies between 65 mm and 130 mm.
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Chagos Atoll and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Sri Lanka and Southwest Japan.