Chicoreus cornucervi

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Chicoreus cornucervi
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A shell of the staghorn murex, Chicoreus cornucervi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Chicoreus
Species:
C. cornucervi
Binomial name
Chicoreus cornucervi
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms [1]
  • Murex araneaBlainville in Kiener, 1822
  • Murex monodonSowerby, 1825
  • Purpura cornucerviRöding, 1798
Shell of Chicoreus cornucervi (Roding, 1798), with operculum measuring 101.4 mm in height, collected at low tide in rocky crevice at One Arm Point, in Broome, Australia. Chicoreus cornucervi.jpg
Shell of Chicoreus cornucervi (Röding, 1798), with operculum measuring 101.4 mm in height, collected at low tide in rocky crevice at One Arm Point, in Broome, Australia.

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornucervi, common name staghorn murex or toothed murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

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Description

The shell size varies between 50 mm and 148 mm.

Distribution

This species is distributed along Northwest Australia and Western Papua New Guinea.

References

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