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Shell of Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1842, measuring 82.4 mm in height, taken by gill nets at 20 fathoms on rocks off Minabe, in Japan. | |
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Species: | C. asianus |
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Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1942 | |
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Chicoreus orientalisZhang, 1965 Contents |
The Asian murex (Chicoreus asianus) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1]
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