Chicoreus dunni

Chicoreus dunni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Chicoreus dunni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Chicoreus
Subgenus:
Triplex
Species:
C. dunni
Binomial name
Chicoreus dunni
Petuch, 1987
Synonyms[1]

Chicoreus dunni Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, slender, elongated, with elevated spire and long siphonal canal; body whorl with 3 varices; intervarical regions with 1 large rounded knob, varices with 6 highly fimbriated, long, slender, recurved spines; siphonal varices with 3 very elongated, slender, recurved, needle-like spines; body whorl with 6 highly fimbriated spiral cords; aperture large, oval; shell color uniformly very dark blackish-brown; edge of parietal shield orange; interior of aperture brown; spines of siphonal canal always longer than spines on varices."[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "South-Eastern end of Eleuthera Island, Bahamas."[3]

References
  1. Chicoreus dunni Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 53. Publ: CERF
  3. Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 53. Publ: CERF


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