Chicoreus rachelcarsonae

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

Chicoreus rachelcarsonae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. rachelcarsonae
Binomial name
Chicoreus rachelcarsonae Petuch, 1987
Synonyms[1]
Chicoreus rachelcarsonae Petuch, 1987

Description

Original description: "Shell delicate, very frondose, with 3 varices per whorl; one large knob along shoulder between varices; varix with 5 spines; spines often frondose; siphonal canal with 3 large spines; spine on shoulder largest; spire high and elevated; shell color pink or pale salmon-orange overlaid with numerous fine, pale tan spiral threads; spines often darker pinkish red or orange-red; protoconch and early whorls bright orange-red; siphonal canal completely closed."^[2]

Distribution

Locus typicus: "(Trawled from) 150 metres depth, 50 kilometres South of Apalachicola, Florida, USA."^[3]

Habitat

This rare Gulf of Mexico species lives on coralline algal sea floors.