Adusta murex | |
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Five views of a shell of Chicoreus brunneus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Chicoreus |
Species: | C. brunneus |
Binomial name | |
Chicoreus brunneus (Link, 1807) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Chicoreus brunneus, common name the adusta murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails. [1]
The adult shell size of this species varies between 25 mm and 115 mm in length.
This sea snail is found widely spread in the Indo-West Pacific, and occurs from east Africa to Polynesia, southern Japan, New South Wales and New Caledonia, Australia. [4]
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