Chicoreus virgineus

Chicoreus virgineus
Apertural view of Chicoreus virgineus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Chicoreus
Subgenus: Chicoreus
Species: C. virgineus
Binomial name
Chicoreus virgineus
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Chicoreus (Chicoreus) virgineus (Röding, 1798)
  • Murex anguliferus Lamarck, 1822
  • Murex cyacantha Sowerby, 1879
  • Murex erythraeus Fischer, 1870
  • Murex ferrugo Wood, 1828
  • Murex ponderosus Sowerby, 1879
  • Murex tricostatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
  • Purpura rudis Link, 1807
  • Purpura virgineus Röding, 1798

Chicoreus virgineus, common name the virgin 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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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 160 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed from the Red Sea to the Bay of Bengal.

References

  1. ^ a b Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405334 on 29 June 2011.

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