Chicomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species Species within the genus Chicomurex include: Chicomurex elliscrossi (Fair, 1974) Chicomurex excelsus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017 Chicomurex globus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2015 Chicomurex gloriosus (Shikama, 1977) Chicomurex laciniatus (Sowerby II, 1841) Chicomurex lani Houart, Moe & Chen, 2014 Chicomurex protoglobosus Houart, 1992 Chicomurex pseudosuperbus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2015 Chicomurex ritae Houart, 2013 Chicomurex rosadoi Houart, 1999 Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby III, 1889) Chicomurex tagaroae Houart, 2013 Chicomurex turschi (Houart, 1981) Chicomurex vaulberti Houart & Lorenz, 2020 Chicomurex venustulus (Rehder & Wilson, 1975) Species brought into synonymy Chicomurex problematicus (Lan, 1981): synonym of Chicomurex superbus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)
References
Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp Houart R., Moe C.O. & Chen C., 2015. Description of two new species of Chicomurex from the Philippine Islands (Gastropoda: Muricidae) with update of the Philippines species and rehabilitation of Chicomurex gloriosus (Shikama, 1977). Venus 73(1-2): 1-14
External links
Arakawa K.Y. (1964). A study on the radulae of the Japanese Muricidae (2). The genera Vexilla, Nassa, Rapana, Murex, Chicoreus and Homalocantha. Venus. 22(4): 355-364, pl. 21