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[1]
  • 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

The rose-branch murex, Chicoreus palmarosae, 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.

Distribution

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.

References

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