| Chicoreus torrefactus | |
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| Apertural view of Chicoreus torrefactus | |
| 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. torrefactus |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicoreus torrefactus (Sowerby, 1841) |
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Chicoreus torrefactus, common name the firebrand 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 60 mm and 160 mm.
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania.