Chicoreus asianus

Chicoreus asianus
Shell of Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1842, measuring 82.4 mm in height, taken by gill nets at 20 fathoms on rocks off Minabe, in Japan.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Chicoreus
Species:
C. asianus
Binomial name
Chicoreus asianus
Kuroda, 1942
Synonyms[1]

Chicoreus orientalis Zhang, 1965
Murex sinensis Reeve, 1845

The Asian murex (Chicoreus asianus) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Description

Size 6–15 cm

Distribution

SE Japan - China - Vietnam

References

  1. ^ a b Chicoreus asianus Kuroda, 1942. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.


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