Chicoreus bundharmai

Chicoreus bundharmai
Apertural view of Chicoreus bundharmai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. bundharmai
Binomial name
Chicoreus bundharmai Houart, 1992
Synonyms [1]
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) bundharmaiHouart, 1992

The bundharma's murex (Chicoreus bundharmai) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50mm and 140mm. First and second teleoconch whorls have 10 axial ribs. The shell is light brown with darker spinal cords, and brown peripheral band at adapical part of whorls. Aperture (mollusc) whitish with pink rim. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Kalimantan, Indonesia and in the East Sea off Vietnam.

References

1. Chicoreus bundharmai Houart, 1992 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.

• Houart, R., 1992. Description of a new species of Chicoreus (s.s.) (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Kalimantan (Borneo). Apex 7(1): 27-30

External links

• "Chicoreus (Chicoreus) exuberans". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 25 June 2011.