Chicoreus virgineus, common name the virgin murex, 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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| Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Chicoreus |
| Species: | C. virgineus
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| Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
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Description edit
The size of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 160 mm.
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Distribution edit
This species occurs from the Red Sea to the Bay of Bengal.
Subspecies edit
Chicoreus Virgineus Ponderosus (var) Sowerby 1879
References edit
- ^ a b Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 29 June 2011.
- Lamarck, J. B. P. A., 1822 Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, vol. 7, p. 711 pp
- Fischer, P., 1870. La faune conchyliologique marine des baies de Suez et de l'Akabah. Journal de Conchyliologie 18: 162-179
- Poirier, J., 1883. Révision des Murex. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle 5: 13-128, sér. série 2
- Houart, R., 1992. The genus Chicoreus and related genera (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 154(A): 1-188
External links edit
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- "Chicoreus (Chicoreus) virgineus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- Fischer von W. G. (1807). Museum Demidoff, ou, Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art: données à l'Université Impériale de Moscou par son excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Moscow: Imprimerie de Université Impériale de Moscou. 3: 300pp. 6pls.
- MNHN, Paris: lectotype
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