Chicoreus palmarosae

Chicoreus palmarosae
	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)
Synonyms
	Chicoreus (Triplex) maurus sauliae Sowerby, G.B. II, 1841; Chicoreus (Triplex) palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822); Chicoreus (Triplex) palmarosae rosarius (f) Perry, G., 1811; Chicoreus (Triplex) rosaria Perry, G., 1811; Murex argyna Mörch, 1852; Murex palmarosae Lamarck, 1822;

Chicoreus palmarosae (rose-branch murex) is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails.^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 65 mm and 130 mm. It is mostly dark red with branch like structures all over the conch.

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.

Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Schmidt, W. & O. Bellec (1994). Findings of some uncommon sea-shells off Madagascar. African Journal of Tropical Hydrobiology and Fisheries 5(1): 63 - 66.

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