Chicoreus bundharmai
| Chicoreus bundharmai | |
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| Apertural view of Chicoreus bundharmai | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Genus: | Chicoreus |
| Species: | C. bundharmai
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| Binomial name | |
| Chicoreus bundharmai Houart, 1992
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Chicoreus (Chicoreus) bundharmai Houart, 1992 | |
The bundharma's murex (Chicoreus bundharmai) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 50mm and 140mm. First and second teleoconch whorls have 10 axial ribs. The shell is light brown with darker spinal cords, and brown peripheral band at adapical part of whorls. Aperture (mollusc) whitish with pink rim.[1]
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Kalimantan, Indonesia and in the East Sea off Vietnam.
References
- ^ a b c Chicoreus bundharmai Houart, 1992. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- Houart, R., 1992. Description of a new species of Chicoreus (s.s.) (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Kalimantan (Borneo). Apex 7(1): 27-30
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chicoreus bundharmai.
- "Chicoreus (Chicoreus) exuberans". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 25 June 2011.