| Chicoreus palmarosae | |
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| A shell of Chicoreus palmarosae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Chicoreus |
| Species: | C. palmarosae |
| Binomial name | |
| Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Chicoreus palmarosae (rose-branch murex) is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails. [1]
The size of an adult shell varies between 65 mm and 130 mm. It is mostly dark red with branch like structures all over the conch.
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Chagos Atoll and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Sri Lanka and Southwest Japan.
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