''Chicoreus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of medium- to large-sized
predatory
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill th ...
sea snails. These are
carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family
Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neoga ...
, the murexes or rock snails.
[Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487 on 2010-11-01]
Species
Over 100 species are within the genus, with several
subgeneraref name="Malacolog 4.1.1">
including:
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Chicoreus aculeatus
''Chicoreus aculeatus'', common name the pendant murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.Houart, R. (2011). Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822). Accesse ...
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(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822)
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Chicoreus akritos
''Chicoreus'' is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouche ...
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Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976
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Chicoreus allaryi''
Houart, Quiquandon & Briano, 2004
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Chicoreus androyensis
''Chicoreus'' is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouche ...
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Damarco & Briano, 2020
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Chicoreus anosyensis
''Chicoreus'' is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouche ...
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Bozzetti, 2013
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Chicoreus aquilus
''Chicoreus'' is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouche ...
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Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
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Chicoreus arbaguil
''Chicoreus'' is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouche ...
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Houart, 2015
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Chicoreus asianus
The Asian murex (''Chicoreus asianus'') is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, co ...
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Kuroda, 1942
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Chicoreus austramosus''
Vokes, 1978
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Chicoreus axicornis
''Chicoreus axicornis'', the axicornis murex or centre-horned murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The shell of ''Chicoreus axicornis'' can reach a ...
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(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822)
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Chicoreus banksii
''Chicoreus banksii'', common name the Banks' murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 55 mm and 107&nbs ...
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(Sowerby II, 1841)
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Chicoreus boucheti
''Chicoreus boucheti'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as m ...
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Houart, 1983
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Chicoreus bourguignati''
(Poirier, 1883)
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Chicoreus brevifrons
''Chicoreus brevifrons'', common name the West Indian murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails.Houart, R. (2011). Chicoreus brevifrons (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: ...
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(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822)
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Chicoreus brianbaileyi''
(Mühlhäusser, 1984)
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Chicoreus brunneus
''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.Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus (Triplex) brunneus (Link, 1807). Accessed through: ...
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(Link, 1807)
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Chicoreus bullisi''
Vokes, 1974
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Chicoreus bundharmai''
Houart, 1992
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Chicoreus capucinus''
Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822
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Chicoreus cervicornis''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822)
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Chicoreus cloveri''
(Houart, 1985)
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Chicoreus cnissodus''
(Euthyme, 1889)
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Chicoreus cornucervi''
(Röding, 1798)
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Chicoreus corrugatus''
Sowerby II, 1841
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Chicoreus cosmani''
Abbott & Finlay, 1979
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Chicoreus crosnieri''
Houart, 1985
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Chicoreus damicornis''
(Hedley, 1903)
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Chicoreus denudatus''
(Perry, 1811)
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Chicoreus dharmai''
Houart, 2015
* ''
Chicoreus dodongi''
Houart, 1995
* ''
Chicoreus dovi''
Houart, 1984
* ''
Chicoreus dunni''
Petuch, 1987
* ''
Chicoreus duyenae''
Thach, 2016
* ''
Chicoreus elisae''
Bozzetti, 1991
* ''
Chicoreus exuberans''
Cossignani, 2004
* ''
Chicoreus felicitatis''
Bozzetti, 2011
* ''
Chicoreus florifer''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''
Chicoreus fosterorum''
Houart, 1989
* ''
Chicoreus franchii''
Cossignani, 2005
* ''
Chicoreus franzettiae''
Houart, 2019
* ''
Chicoreus giadae''
Cossignani, 2016
* ''
Chicoreus groschi''
Vokes, 1978
* ''
Chicoreus guillei''
Houart, 1985
* ''
Chicoreus ingridmariae''
Houart, 2010
* ''
Chicoreus insularum''
(Pilsbry, 1921)
* ''
Chicoreus janae''
Houart, 2013
* ''
Chicoreus jessicae''
Houart, 2008
* ''
Chicoreus kahlbrocki''
Houart & Lorenz, 2020
* ''
Chicoreus kaitomoei''
Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
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Chicoreus kantori''
Houart & Héros, 2013
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Chicoreus laqueatus''
(Sowerby II, 1841)
* † ''
Chicoreus lawsi''
(P. A. Maxwell, 1971)
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Chicoreus leali''
Thach, 2016
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Chicoreus litos''
Vokes, 1978
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Chicoreus loebbeckei''
(Kobelt, 1879)
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Chicoreus longicornis''
(Dunker, 1864)
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Chicoreus lorenzi''
Houart, 2009
* ''
Chicoreus maurus''
(Broderip, 1833)
* ''
Chicoreus mergus''
Vokes, 1974
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Chicoreus microphyllus''
(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1816)
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Chicoreus miyokoae''
(Kosuge, 1979)
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Chicoreus mocki''
Beals, 1997
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Chicoreus monicae''
Bozzetti, 2001
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Chicoreus nobilis''
Shikama, 1977
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Chicoreus orchidiflorus'' Shikama, 1973
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Chicoreus paini''
Houart, 1983
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Chicoreus palmarosae
''Chicoreus palmarosae'' (rose-branch murex) is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 65 mm and 130&nbs ...
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(Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (; ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biolo ...
, 1822)
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Chicoreus paucifrondosus''
Houart, 1988
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Chicoreus peledi''
Vokes, 1978
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Chicoreus pisori''
Houart, 2007
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Chicoreus rachelcarsonae''
Petuch, 1987
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Chicoreus ramosus
''Chicoreus ramosus'', common name the ramose murex or branched murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails. It is considered an economically important species in the Indo ...
''
(Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758)
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Chicoreus roberti''
Bozzetti, 2015
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Chicoreus rossiteri''
(Crosse, 1872)
* ''
Chicoreus rubescens''
(Broderip, 1833)
* ''
Chicoreus ryosukei''
Shikama, 1978
* ''
Chicoreus ryukyuensis''
Shikama, 1978
* ''
Chicoreus saulii''
(Sowerby II, 1841)
* ''
Chicoreus setionoi''
Houart, 2001
* ''
Chicoreus solangeae''
Bozzetti, 2014
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Chicoreus spectrum''
(Reeve, 1846)
* ''
Chicoreus strigatus''
(Reeve, 1849)
* ''
Chicoreus subpalmatus''
Houart, 1988
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Chicoreus territus''
(Reeve, 1845)
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Chicoreus teva''
Houart & Lorenz, 2016
* ''
Chicoreus thomasi''
(Crosse, 1872)
* ''
Chicoreus torrefactus''
(Sowerby II, 1841)
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Chicoreus trivialis''
(A. Adams, 1854)
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Chicoreus varius
''Chicoreus varius'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 29 mm and 65 mm
Distribution
This species occurs in th ...
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(G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)
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Chicoreus virgineus''
(Röding, 1798)
* †''
Chicoreus xestos''
(E. Vokes, 1974)
* ''
Chicoreus zululandensis''
Houart, 1989
;Synonymized species :
*''Chicoreus adustus'' Lamarck, 1822 : synonym of ''Chicoreus (Triplex) brunneus'' (Link, 1807)
*''Chicoreus akritos'' Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976 : synonym of ''Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus'' (Lamarck, 1816)
*''Chicoreus clausii'' (Dunker, 1879) : synonym of ''Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) varius clausii'' (Dunker, 1879)
*''Chicoreus cloveri'' Houart, 1985: represented as ''Chicoreus (Triplex) cloveri'' Houart, 1985
*''Chicoreus gubbi'' (Reeve, 1849) : synonym of ''
Chicocenebra gubbi
''Chicocenebra gubbi'', common name : Gubb's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 24 mm and 60& ...
'' (Reeve, 1849)
*''Chicoreus guionneti'' Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2002 : synonym of ''
Siratus guionneti
''Siratus guionneti'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 35 mm and 60 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in th ...
'' (Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2001)
*''Chicoreus inflatus'' (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of ''Chicoreus (Chicoreus) ramosus''
*''Chicoreus perelegans'' Vokes, 1965 : synonym of ''
Siratus perelegans'' (Vokes, 1965)
*''Chicoreus subtilis'' Houart, 1977 : synonym of ''Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) orchidiflorus'' (Shikama, 1973)
*''Chicoreus superbus'' (Sowerby, 1889) : synonym of ''
Chicomurex superbus
''Chicomurex superbus'', common name : superb murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The shell size varies between 40 mm and 85 mm with the ...
'' (Sowerby, 1889)
;Subgenus ''Chicoreus'' (''
Phyllonotus
''Phyllonotus'' is a genus of medium to large sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Phyllonotus Swainson, 1833 . In: Bouche ...
'')
Swainson, 1833
In 2011, ''Phyllonotus'' was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of ''Chicoreus''.
[Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) ''Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae''. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114]
*''Chicoreus erythrostomus'' (Swainson, 1831): synonym of ''
Hexaplex erythrostomus
''Hexaplex erythrostomus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae
Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known ...
'' (Swainson, 1831)
*''Chicoreus regius'' (Swainson, 1821): synLamarckonym of ''
Hexaplex regius
''Hexaplex regius'', common name: the regal murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
The size of the adult shell varies between 60 mm and 180&nb ...
'' (Swainson, 1821)
References
External links
Chicoreus ramosus at zipcodezoo (archived fro
the original
* Another taxonomy a
Muricinae
{{Muricinae-stub