Chicoreus bourguignati

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

Chicoreus bourguignati
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. bourguignati
Binomial name
Chicoreus bourguignati (Poirier, 1883)
Synonyms[1]
Chicoreus (Triplex) bourguignati (Poirier, 1883)· accepted, alternate representation Murex bourguignati Poirier, 1883

Description

The length of the shell varies between 6 and 10 centimeters.

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Southeast Africa to Sri Lanka and Yemen.