Chicoreus

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.^[3]

Chicoreus
Ventral view of a shell of Chicoreus ramosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Chicoreus Montfort, 1810[1]
Type species
Murex ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[2]
Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) Houart, 1992 Chicoreus (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810 Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex) Oyama, 1950 Chicoreus (Triplex) Perry, 1810 Euphyllon Jousseaume, 1880 Foveomurex Wenz, 1941 Frondosaria Schlüter, 1838 Murex (Chicoreus) Montfort, 1810 Pirtus de Gregorio, 1885 Torvamurex Macpherson & Gabriel, 1962 Torvamurex Iredale, 1936 (invalid, no description) Triplex Perry, 1810

Species

Over 100 species are within the genus, with several subgenera, ^[4][2] 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 woelflingi T. Cossignani, 2024
• †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, 1833

In 2011, Phyllonotus was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of Chicoreus.^[5]

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