Chicoreus longicornis

Chicoreus longicornis
Original image of a shell of Chicoreus longicornis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. longicornis
Binomial name
Chicoreus longicornis (Dunker, 1864)
Synonyms [1]
Chicoreus (Triplex) longicornis(Dunker, 1864) · accepted, alternate representation Chicoreus recticornis(Martens in Lobbecke & Kobelt, 1880) Murex longicornisDunker, 1864 Murex recticornisMartens in Lobbecke & Kobelt, 1880 Poirieria kurranullaGarrard, 1961

Chicoreus longicornis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 75 mm. The shell has a tan color, with stripes of a much darker hue of the same tan. The shell also has many hollow, protruding "hornlike" spikes, that can sometimes resemble the antlers of a deer. The color does vary uniquely, and can be a much darker or lighter shade of tan. It is structurally characterized by having three spinose axial vertices per whorl.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific and off Australia (Queensland)

References

1. Chicoreus longicornis (Dunker, 1864) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

• Wilson, B. R. & Gillett, K. (1974). Australian Shells. Illustrating and Describing 600 Species of Marine Gastropods from Australian Waters. A. H. & A. W. Reed.