Chicoreus virgineus

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

Chicoreus virgineus
Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. virgineus
Binomial name
Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) virgineus (Röding, 1798) Murex anguliferus Lamarck, 1822 Murex cyacantha Sowerby, 1879 Murex erythraeus Fischer, 1870 Murex ferrugo Wood, 1828 Murex ponderosus Sowerby, 1879 Murex tricostatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 Murex virgineus (Röding, 1798) Murex virgineus var. ponderosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1879 Muricanthus virgineus (Röding, 1798) Purpura rudis Link, 1807 Purpura virgineus Röding, 1798

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 160 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs from the Red Sea to the Bay of Bengal.

Subspecies

Chicoreus Virgineus Ponderosus (var) Sowerby 1879