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Chicocenebra gubbi

Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Chicocenebra gubbi, common name : Gubb's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

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Description

The shell size varies between 34 mm and 45 mm[2][3]

It is also described in the Conchologia Iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals as a:

Shell triangularly fusiform, contracted towards the base, whorls depressly concave round the upper part, transversly granosely striated and ridged, ridges irregularly nodolous, three-varicose, varices frondose, fronds narrow, irregular, a single middle one bifurcated, the uppermost frond much the larger, peculiary hooked; lip conpisciously toothed, cinder black, fulvous in front near the base, interior of the aperture bluish-white.[4]

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Distribution

This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola and Senegal.

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