Chicoreus palmarosae

Chicoreus palmarosae (rose-branch murex) is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails.^[1]

Chicoreus palmarosae
A shell of Chicoreus palmarosae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. palmarosae
Binomial name
Chicoreus palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
Chicoreus (Triplex) maurus sauliae Sowerby, G.B. II, 1841 Chicoreus (Triplex) palmarosae (Lamarck, 1822) Chicoreus (Triplex) palmarosae rosarius (f) Perry, G., 1811 Chicoreus (Triplex) rosaria Perry, G., 1811 Murex argyna Mörch, 1852 Murex palmarosae Lamarck, 1822

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 65 mm and 130 mm. It is mostly dark red with branch like structures all over the conch.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean along the Chagos Atoll and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Sri Lanka and Southwest Japan.