Biology:Chicoreus virgineus

Short description: Species of gastropod

Chicoreus virgineus
Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Subgenus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. virgineus
Binomial name
Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) virgineus (Röding, 1798) Murex anguliferus Lamarck, 1822 Murex cyacantha Sowerby, 1879 Murex erythraeus Fischer, 1870 Murex ferrugo Wood, 1828 Murex ponderosus Sowerby, 1879 Murex tricostatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 Murex virgineus (Röding, 1798) Murex virgineus var. ponderosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1879 Muricanthus virgineus (Röding, 1798) Purpura rudis Link, 1807 Purpura virgineus Röding, 1798

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.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 160 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs from the Red Sea to the Bay of Bengal.

Subspecies

Chicoreus Virgineus Ponderosus (var) Sowerby 1879

References

• 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

• "Chicoreus (Chicoreus) virgineus" (in en). Gastropods.com. http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_2922.shtml. 
• 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

Wikidata ☰ Q5096560 entry