| Chicocenebra gubbi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Chicocenebra |
| Species: | C. gubbi |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicocenebra gubbi (Reeve, 1849) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Chicocenebra gubbi, common name : Gubb's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
The shell size varies between 34 mm and 45 mm [2] [3]
It is also described in the Conchologia Iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals as a:
Shell triangularly fusiform, contracted towards the base, whorls depressly concave round the upper part, transversly granosely striated and ridged, ridges irregularly nodolous, three-varicose, varices frondose, fronds narrow, irregular, a single middle one bifurcated, the uppermost frond much the larger, peculiary hooked; lip conpisciously toothed, cinder black, fulvous in front near the base, interior of the aperture bluish-white. [4]
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This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola and Senegal.
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