| Chicoreus | |
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| Ventral view of a shell of Chicoreus ramosus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Chicoreus Montfort, 18101 |
| Type species | |
| Murex ramosus | |
| Synonyms2 | |
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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]42 including:
- Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus akritos Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976
- Chicoreus allaryi Houart, Quiquandon & Briano, 2004
- Chicoreus androyensis Damarco & Briano, 2020
- Chicoreus anosyensis Bozzetti, 2013
- Chicoreus aquilus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
- Chicoreus arbaguil Houart, 2015
- Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1942
- Chicoreus austramosus Vokes, 1978
- Chicoreus axicornis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus banksii (Sowerby II, 1841)
- Chicoreus boucheti Houart, 1983
- Chicoreus bourguignati (Poirier, 1883)
- Chicoreus brevifrons (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus brianbaileyi (Mühlhäusser, 1984)
- Chicoreus brunneus (Link, 1807)
- Chicoreus bullisi Vokes, 1974
- Chicoreus bundharmai Houart, 1992
- Chicoreus capucinus Lamarck, 1822
- Chicoreus cervicornis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus cloveri (Houart, 1985)
- Chicoreus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889)
- Chicoreus cornucervi (Röding, 1798)
- Chicoreus corrugatus Sowerby II, 1841
- Chicoreus cosmani Abbott & Finlay, 1979
- Chicoreus crosnieri Houart, 1985
- Chicoreus damicornis (Hedley, 1903)
- Chicoreus denudatus (Perry, 1811)
- 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
- Chicoreus kantori Houart & Héros, 2013
- Chicoreus laqueatus (Sowerby II, 1841)
- † Chicoreus lawsi (P. A. Maxwell, 1971)
- Chicoreus leali Thach, 2016
- Chicoreus litos Vokes, 1978
- Chicoreus loebbeckei (Kobelt, 1879)
- Chicoreus longicornis (Dunker, 1864)
- Chicoreus lorenzi Houart, 2009
- Chicoreus maurus (Broderip, 1833)
- Chicoreus mergus Vokes, 1974
- Chicoreus microphyllus (Lamarck, 1816)
- Chicoreus miyokoae (Kosuge, 1979)
- Chicoreus mocki Beals, 1997
- Chicoreus monicae Bozzetti, 2001
- Chicoreus nobilis Shikama, 1977
- Chicoreus orchidiflorus Shikama, 1973
- Chicoreus paini Houart, 1983
- Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822)
- Chicoreus paucifrondosus Houart, 1988
- Chicoreus peledi Vokes, 1978
- Chicoreus pisori Houart, 2007
- Chicoreus rachelcarsonae Petuch, 1987
- Chicoreus ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Chicoreus roberti Bozzetti, 2015
- 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
- Chicoreus spectrum (Reeve, 1846)
- Chicoreus strigatus (Reeve, 1849)
- Chicoreus subpalmatus Houart, 1988
- Chicoreus territus (Reeve, 1845)
- Chicoreus teva Houart & Lorenz, 2016
- Chicoreus thomasi (Crosse, 1872)
- Chicoreus torrefactus (Sowerby II, 1841)
- Chicoreus trivialis (A. Adams, 1854)
- Chicoreus varius (G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)
- Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
- Chicoreus woelflingi T. Cossignani, 2024
- †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 (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
- Chicoreus erythrostomus (Swainson, 1831): synonym of Hexaplex erythrostomus (Swainson, 1831)
- Chicoreus regius (Swainson, 1821): synLamarckonym of Hexaplex regius (Swainson, 1821)
References
References
- Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 610.
- "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 2013-11-27.
- 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
- Rosenberg, Gary (2009). "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". Retrieved 2013-11-27.
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114
External links
External links
- Chicoreus ramosus, at zipcodezoo (archived from the original)
- Another taxonomy at [2]