Chicoreus brunneus

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

Adusta murex
Five views of a shell of Chicoreus brunneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. brunneus
Binomial name
Chicoreus brunneus (Link, 1807)
Synonyms[1]
Murex adustus Lamarck, 1822 Murex brunneus Link, 1807 Murex despectus A. Adams, 1854 Chicoreus adustus (Lamarck, 1822) Chicoreus brunneus (Link, 1807) Murex australiensis A. Adams, 1854 Murex erithrostomus Dufo, 1840 Murex huttoniae Wright, 1878 Murex oligocanthus Euthyme, 1889 Murex versicolor Gmelin, 1791 Purpura brunneus Link, 1807 (basionym) Purpura scabra sensu Martyn Mørch, 1852 Triplex flavicunda Perry, 1810 Triplex rubicunda Perry, 1810

Subspecies and formae

• Chicoreus (Triplex) brunneus flavicunda (f) (Perry, G., 1810) ^[2]
• Chicoreus (Triplex) brunneus huttoniae (f) Wright, B., 1878 ^[3]

Description

The adult shell size of this species varies between 25 mm and 115 mm in length.

Distribution

This sea snail is found widely spread in the Indo-West Pacific, and occurs from east Africa to Polynesia, southern Japan, New South Wales and New Caledonia, Australia.^[4]