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Chicoreus
Ventral view of a shell of Chicoreus ramosus
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Chicoreus

Type species
Murex ramosus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) Houart, 1992
  • Chicoreus (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810
  • Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex) Oyama, 1950
  • Chicoreus (Triplex) Perry, 1810
  • Euphyllon Jousseaume, 1880
  • Frondosaria Schlüter, 1838
  • Triplex Perry, 1810
  • Murex (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810

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.[3]

Species

Over 100 species are within the genus, with several subgenera, [1][4][2] including:

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 (Reeve, 1849)
  • Chicoreus guionneti Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2002 : synonym of Siratus guionneti (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 (Sowerby, 1889)
Subgenus Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) Swainson, 1833

In 2011, Phyllonotus was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of Chicoreus.[5]

References

  1. ^ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 610.
  2. ^ a b "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 2013-11-27.
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Rosenberg, Gary (2009). "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". Retrieved 2013-11-27.
  5. ^ Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114