Chicoreus Explained

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.^[1]

Species

Over 100 species are within the genus, with several subgenera, http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/C/Chicoreus_ramosus/^{[2] [3]} 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, 1833In 2011, Phyllonotus was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of Chicoreus.^[4]

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

External links

• Chicoreus ramosus, at zipcodezoo (archived from the original)
• Another taxonomy at http://www.taxonomy.nl/main/classification/36311.htm

Notes and References

1. 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
2. Web site: Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. Rosenberg. Gary. 2009. 2013-11-27.
3. Web site: World Register of Marine Species. 2013-11-27.
4. Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114