Chicoreus

Chicoreus
Ventral view of a shell of Chicoreus ramosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Chicoreus Montfort, 1810
Type species
Murex ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
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Synonyms
Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) Houart, 1992 Chicoreus (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810 Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex) Oyama, 1950 Chicoreus (Triplex) Perry, 1810 Euphyllon Jousseaume, 1880 Frondosaria Schlüter, 1838 Triplex Perry, 1810 Murex (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810

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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.

Over 100 species are within the genus, with several subgenera, [1] including:

In 2011, Phyllonotus was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of Chicoreus.

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