Chicoreus dunni

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Chicoreus dunni
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C. dunni
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Chicoreus dunni
Petuch, 1987
Synonyms [1]

Chicoreus dunniPetuch, 1987

Chicoreus dunni 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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Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, slender, elongated, with elevated spire and long siphonal canal; body whorl with 3 varices; intervarical regions with 1 large rounded knob, varices with 6 highly fimbriated, long, slender, recurved spines; siphonal varices with 3 very elongated, slender, recurved, needle-like spines; body whorl with 6 highly fimbriated spiral cords; aperture large, oval; shell color uniformly very dark blackish-brown; edge of parietal shield orange; interior of aperture brown; spines of siphonal canal always longer than spines on varices." [2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "South-Eastern end of Eleuthera Island, Bahamas." [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Chicoreus dunni Petuch, 1987 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 53. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 53. Publ: CERF