Chicoreus aculeatus

Chicoreus aculeatus, common name the pendant murex, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Chicoreus aculeatus
Five views of a shell of Chicoreus aculeatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. aculeatus
Binomial name
Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
Chicoreus (Triplex) aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822) Chicoreus artemis Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976 Murex aculeatus Lamarck, 1822 (basionym)

Shell of Chicoreus aculeatus (Lamarck, 1822, 35.6 mm in length, tangle nets off Punta Engano, Philippines.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 38 mm and 65 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs along the coast of South Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of Japan, the Philippines and the Moluccas.