Chicoreus

Chicoreus
	Ventral view of a shell of Chicoreus ramosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Chicoreus; Montfort, 1810
Type species
	Murex ramosus; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) Houart, 1992; Chicoreus (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810; Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex) Oyama, 1950; Chicoreus (Triplex) Perry, 1810; Euphyllon Jousseaume, 1880; Foveomurex Wenz, 1941; Frondosaria Schlüter, 1838; Murex (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810; Pirtus de Gregorio, 1885; Torvamurex Macpherson & Gabriel, 1962; Torvamurex Iredale, 1936 (invalid, no description); Triplex Perry, 1810;

Chicoreus is a genus of medium- to large-sized predatory sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails.^[3]

Species

Over 100 species are within the genus, with several subgenera, [1]^[4]^[2] including:

Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822)
Chicoreus akritos Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976
Chicoreus allaryi Houart, Quiquandon & Briano, 2004
Chicoreus androyensis Damarco & Briano, 2020
Chicoreus anosyensis Bozzetti, 2013
Chicoreus aquilus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
Chicoreus arbaguil Houart, 2015
Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1942
Chicoreus austramosus Vokes, 1978
Chicoreus axicornis (Lamarck, 1822)
Chicoreus banksii (Sowerby II, 1841)
Chicoreus boucheti Houart, 1983
Chicoreus bourguignati (Poirier, 1883)
Chicoreus brevifrons (Lamarck, 1822)
Chicoreus brianbaileyi (Mühlhäusser, 1984)
Chicoreus brunneus (Link, 1807)
Chicoreus bullisi Vokes, 1974
Chicoreus bundharmai Houart, 1992
Chicoreus capucinus Lamarck, 1822
Chicoreus cervicornis (Lamarck, 1822)
Chicoreus cloveri (Houart, 1985)
Chicoreus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889)
Chicoreus cornucervi (Röding, 1798)
Chicoreus corrugatus Sowerby II, 1841
Chicoreus cosmani Abbott & Finlay, 1979
Chicoreus crosnieri Houart, 1985
Chicoreus damicornis (Hedley, 1903)
Chicoreus denudatus (Perry, 1811)
Chicoreus dharmai Houart, 2015
Chicoreus dodongi Houart, 1995
Chicoreus dovi Houart, 1984
Chicoreus dunni Petuch, 1987
Chicoreus duyenae Thach, 2016
Chicoreus elisae Bozzetti, 1991
Chicoreus exuberans Cossignani, 2004
Chicoreus felicitatis Bozzetti, 2011
Chicoreus florifer (Reeve, 1846)
Chicoreus fosterorum Houart, 1989
Chicoreus franchii Cossignani, 2005
Chicoreus franzettiae Houart, 2019
Chicoreus giadae Cossignani, 2016
Chicoreus groschi Vokes, 1978
Chicoreus guillei Houart, 1985
Chicoreus ingridmariae Houart, 2010
Chicoreus insularum (Pilsbry, 1921)
Chicoreus janae Houart, 2013
Chicoreus jessicae Houart, 2008
Chicoreus kahlbrocki Houart & Lorenz, 2020
Chicoreus kaitomoei Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
Chicoreus kantori Houart & Héros, 2013
Chicoreus laqueatus (Sowerby II, 1841)
† Chicoreus lawsi (P. A. Maxwell, 1971)
Chicoreus leali Thach, 2016
Chicoreus litos Vokes, 1978
Chicoreus loebbeckei (Kobelt, 1879)
Chicoreus longicornis (Dunker, 1864)
Chicoreus lorenzi Houart, 2009
Chicoreus maurus (Broderip, 1833)
Chicoreus mergus Vokes, 1974
Chicoreus microphyllus (Lamarck, 1816)
Chicoreus miyokoae (Kosuge, 1979)
Chicoreus mocki Beals, 1997
Chicoreus monicae Bozzetti, 2001
Chicoreus nobilis Shikama, 1977
Chicoreus orchidiflorus Shikama, 1973
Chicoreus paini Houart, 1983
Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822)
Chicoreus paucifrondosus Houart, 1988
Chicoreus peledi Vokes, 1978
Chicoreus pisori Houart, 2007
Chicoreus rachelcarsonae Petuch, 1987
Chicoreus ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Chicoreus roberti Bozzetti, 2015
Chicoreus rossiteri (Crosse, 1872)
Chicoreus rubescens (Broderip, 1833)
Chicoreus ryosukei Shikama, 1978
Chicoreus ryukyuensis Shikama, 1978
Chicoreus saulii (Sowerby II, 1841)
Chicoreus setionoi Houart, 2001
Chicoreus solangeae Bozzetti, 2014
Chicoreus spectrum (Reeve, 1846)
Chicoreus strigatus (Reeve, 1849)
Chicoreus subpalmatus Houart, 1988
Chicoreus territus (Reeve, 1845)
Chicoreus teva Houart & Lorenz, 2016
Chicoreus thomasi (Crosse, 1872)
Chicoreus torrefactus (Sowerby II, 1841)
Chicoreus trivialis (A. Adams, 1854)
Chicoreus varius (G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)
Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
†Chicoreus xestos (E. Vokes, 1974)
Chicoreus zululandensis Houart, 1989

Synonymized species

Chicoreus adustus Lamarck, 1822 : synonym of Chicoreus (Triplex) brunneus (Link, 1807)
Chicoreus akritos Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976 : synonym of Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus (Lamarck, 1816)
Chicoreus clausii (Dunker, 1879) : synonym of Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) varius clausii (Dunker, 1879)
Chicoreus cloveri Houart, 1985: represented as Chicoreus (Triplex) cloveri Houart, 1985
Chicoreus gubbi (Reeve, 1849) : synonym of Chicocenebra gubbi (Reeve, 1849)
Chicoreus guionneti Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2002 : synonym of Siratus guionneti (Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2001)
Chicoreus inflatus (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of Chicoreus (Chicoreus) ramosus
Chicoreus perelegans Vokes, 1965 : synonym of Siratus perelegans (Vokes, 1965)
Chicoreus subtilis Houart, 1977 : synonym of Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) orchidiflorus (Shikama, 1973)
Chicoreus superbus (Sowerby, 1889) : synonym of Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889)

Subgenus Chicoreus (Phyllonotus) Swainson, 1833

In 2011, Phyllonotus was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of Chicoreus.^[5]

Chicoreus erythrostomus (Swainson, 1831): synonym of Hexaplex erythrostomus (Swainson, 1831)
Chicoreus regius (Swainson, 1821): synLamarckonym of Hexaplex regius (Swainson, 1821)

References

^ Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 610.
^ ^a ^b "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 2013-11-27.
^ Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487 on 2010-11-01
^ Rosenberg, Gary (2009). "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". Retrieved 2013-11-27.
^ Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114

External links

Chicoreus ramosus, at zipcodezoo (archived from the original)
Another taxonomy at [2]^{[permanent dead link]}

[1] Montfort (1810). Conch. Syst. 2: 610.

[Worms-2] "World Register of Marine Species". Retrieved 2013-11-27.

[WoRMS-3] Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487 on 2010-11-01

[Malacolog_4.1.1-4] Rosenberg, Gary (2009). "Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca". Retrieved 2013-11-27.

[5] Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114

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