# Chicoreus

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***Chicoreus*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of medium- to large-sized [predatory](/source/Predatory) [sea snails](/source/Sea_snail). These are [carnivorous](/source/Carnivore) [marine](/source/Marine_(ocean)) [gastropod](/source/Gastropod) [molluscs](/source/Mollusc) in the family [Muricidae](/source/Muricidae), the murexes or rock snails.[2]

## Species

Over 100 species are within the genus, with several [subgenera](/source/Subgenera), [\[1\]](http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/C/Chicoreus_ramosus/)[3][4] including:

- *[Chicoreus aculeatus](/source/Chicoreus_aculeatus)* ([Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), 1822)
- *[Chicoreus akritos](/source/Chicoreus_akritos)* Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976
- *[Chicoreus allaryi](/source/Chicoreus_allaryi)* Houart, Quiquandon & Briano, 2004
- *[Chicoreus androyensis](/source/Chicoreus_androyensis)* Damarco & Briano, 2020
- *[Chicoreus anosyensis](/source/Chicoreus_anosyensis)* Bozzetti, 2013
- *[Chicoreus aquilus](/source/Chicoreus_aquilus)* Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
- *[Chicoreus arbaguil](/source/Chicoreus_arbaguil)* Houart, 2015
- *[Chicoreus asianus](/source/Chicoreus_asianus)* Kuroda, 1942
- *[Chicoreus austramosus](/source/Chicoreus_austramosus)* Vokes, 1978
- *[Chicoreus axicornis](/source/Chicoreus_axicornis)* ([Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), 1822)
- *[Chicoreus banksii](/source/Chicoreus_banksii)* (Sowerby II, 1841)
- *[Chicoreus boucheti](/source/Chicoreus_boucheti)* Houart, 1983
- *[Chicoreus bourguignati](/source/Chicoreus_bourguignati)* (Poirier, 1883)
- *[Chicoreus brevifrons](/source/Chicoreus_brevifrons)* ([Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), 1822)
- *[Chicoreus brianbaileyi](/source/Chicoreus_brianbaileyi)* (Mühlhäusser, 1984)
- *[Chicoreus brunneus](/source/Chicoreus_brunneus)* (Link, 1807)
- *[Chicoreus bullisi](/source/Chicoreus_bullisi)* Vokes, 1974
- *[Chicoreus bundharmai](/source/Chicoreus_bundharmai)* Houart, 1992
- *[Chicoreus capucinus](/source/Chicoreus_capucinus)* [Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), 1822
- *[Chicoreus cervicornis](/source/Chicoreus_cervicornis)* ([Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), 1822)
- *[Chicoreus cloveri](/source/Chicoreus_cloveri)* (Houart, 1985)
- *[Chicoreus cnissodus](/source/Chicoreus_cnissodus)* (Euthyme, 1889)
- *[Chicoreus cornucervi](/source/Chicoreus_cornucervi)* (Röding, 1798)
- *[Chicoreus corrugatus](/source/Chicoreus_corrugatus)* Sowerby II, 1841
- *[Chicoreus cosmani](/source/Chicoreus_cosmani)* Abbott & Finlay, 1979
- *[Chicoreus crosnieri](/source/Chicoreus_crosnieri)* Houart, 1985
- *[Chicoreus damicornis](/source/Chicoreus_damicornis)* (Hedley, 1903)
- *[Chicoreus denudatus](/source/Chicoreus_denudatus)* (Perry, 1811)
- *[Chicoreus dharmai](/source/Chicoreus_dharmai)* Houart, 2015
- *[Chicoreus dodongi](/source/Chicoreus_dodongi)* Houart, 1995
- *[Chicoreus dovi](/source/Chicoreus_dovi)* Houart, 1984
- *[Chicoreus dunni](/source/Chicoreus_dunni)* Petuch, 1987
- *[Chicoreus duyenae](/source/Chicoreus_duyenae)* Thach, 2016
- *[Chicoreus elisae](/source/Chicoreus_elisae)* Bozzetti, 1991
- *[Chicoreus exuberans](/source/Chicoreus_exuberans)* Cossignani, 2004
- *[Chicoreus felicitatis](/source/Chicoreus_felicitatis)* Bozzetti, 2011
- *[Chicoreus florifer](/source/Chicoreus_florifer)* (Reeve, 1846)
- *[Chicoreus fosterorum](/source/Chicoreus_fosterorum)* Houart, 1989
- *[Chicoreus franchii](/source/Chicoreus_franchii)* Cossignani, 2005
- *[Chicoreus franzettiae](/source/Chicoreus_franzettiae)* Houart, 2019
- *[Chicoreus giadae](/source/Chicoreus_giadae)* Cossignani, 2016
- *[Chicoreus groschi](/source/Chicoreus_groschi)* Vokes, 1978
- *[Chicoreus guillei](/source/Chicoreus_guillei)* Houart, 1985
- *[Chicoreus ingridmariae](/source/Chicoreus_ingridmariae)* Houart, 2010
- *[Chicoreus insularum](/source/Chicoreus_insularum)* (Pilsbry, 1921)
- *[Chicoreus janae](/source/Chicoreus_janae)* Houart, 2013
- *[Chicoreus jessicae](/source/Chicoreus_jessicae)* Houart, 2008
- *[Chicoreus kahlbrocki](/source/Chicoreus_kahlbrocki)* Houart & Lorenz, 2020
- *[Chicoreus kaitomoei](/source/Chicoreus_kaitomoei)* Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
- *[Chicoreus kantori](/source/Chicoreus_kantori)* Houart & Héros, 2013
- *[Chicoreus laqueatus](/source/Chicoreus_laqueatus)* (Sowerby II, 1841)
- † *[Chicoreus lawsi](/source/Chicoreus_lawsi)* (P. A. Maxwell, 1971)
- *[Chicoreus leali](/source/Chicoreus_leali)* Thach, 2016
- *[Chicoreus litos](/source/Chicoreus_litos)* Vokes, 1978
- *[Chicoreus loebbeckei](/source/Chicoreus_loebbeckei)* (Kobelt, 1879)
- *[Chicoreus longicornis](/source/Chicoreus_longicornis)* (Dunker, 1864)
- *[Chicoreus lorenzi](/source/Chicoreus_lorenzi)* Houart, 2009
- *[Chicoreus maurus](/source/Chicoreus_maurus)* (Broderip, 1833)
- *[Chicoreus mergus](/source/Chicoreus_mergus)* Vokes, 1974
- *[Chicoreus microphyllus](/source/Chicoreus_microphyllus)* ([Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), 1816)
- *[Chicoreus miyokoae](/source/Chicoreus_miyokoae)* (Kosuge, 1979)
- *[Chicoreus mocki](/source/Chicoreus_mocki)* Beals, 1997
- *[Chicoreus monicae](/source/Chicoreus_monicae)* Bozzetti, 2001
- *[Chicoreus nobilis](/source/Chicoreus_nobilis)* Shikama, 1977
- *[Chicoreus orchidiflorus](/source/Chicoreus_orchidiflorus)* Shikama, 1973
- *[Chicoreus paini](/source/Chicoreus_paini)* Houart, 1983
- *[Chicoreus palmarosae](/source/Chicoreus_palmarosae)* ([Lamarck](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck), 1822)
- *[Chicoreus paucifrondosus](/source/Chicoreus_paucifrondosus)* Houart, 1988
- *[Chicoreus peledi](/source/Chicoreus_peledi)* Vokes, 1978
- *[Chicoreus pisori](/source/Chicoreus_pisori)* Houart, 2007
- *[Chicoreus rachelcarsonae](/source/Chicoreus_rachelcarsonae)* Petuch, 1987
- *[Chicoreus ramosus](/source/Chicoreus_ramosus)* ([Linnaeus](/source/Carl_Linnaeus), [1758](/source/10th_edition_of_Systema_Naturae))
- *[Chicoreus roberti](/source/Chicoreus_roberti)* Bozzetti, 2015
- *[Chicoreus rossiteri](/source/Chicoreus_rossiteri)* (Crosse, 1872)
- *[Chicoreus rubescens](/source/Chicoreus_rubescens)* (Broderip, 1833)
- *[Chicoreus ryosukei](/source/Chicoreus_ryosukei)* Shikama, 1978
- *[Chicoreus ryukyuensis](/source/Chicoreus_ryukyuensis)* Shikama, 1978
- *[Chicoreus saulii](/source/Chicoreus_saulii)* (Sowerby II, 1841)
- *[Chicoreus setionoi](/source/Chicoreus_setionoi)* Houart, 2001
- *[Chicoreus solangeae](/source/Chicoreus_solangeae)* Bozzetti, 2014
- *[Chicoreus spectrum](/source/Chicoreus_spectrum)* (Reeve, 1846)
- *[Chicoreus strigatus](/source/Chicoreus_strigatus)* (Reeve, 1849)
- *[Chicoreus subpalmatus](/source/Chicoreus_subpalmatus)* Houart, 1988
- *[Chicoreus territus](/source/Chicoreus_territus)* (Reeve, 1845)
- *[Chicoreus teva](/source/Chicoreus_teva)* Houart & Lorenz, 2016
- *[Chicoreus thomasi](/source/Chicoreus_thomasi)* (Crosse, 1872)
- *[Chicoreus torrefactus](/source/Chicoreus_torrefactus)* (Sowerby II, 1841)
- *[Chicoreus trivialis](/source/Chicoreus_trivialis)* (A. Adams, 1854)
- *[Chicoreus varius](/source/Chicoreus_varius)* (G.B. Sowerby II, 1834)
- *[Chicoreus virgineus](/source/Chicoreus_virgineus)* (Röding, 1798)
- *[Chicoreus woelflingi](/source/Chicoreus_woelflingi)* T. Cossignani, 2024
- †*[Chicoreus xestos](/source/Chicoreus_xestos)* (E. Vokes, 1974)
- *[Chicoreus zululandensis](/source/Chicoreus_zululandensis)* Houart, 1989

**Synonymized species**

- *Chicoreus adustus* Lamarck, 1822 : synonym of *Chicoreus (Triplex) brunneus* (Link, 1807)
- *Chicoreus akritos* Radwin & D'Attilio, 1976 : synonym of *Chicoreus (Triplex) microphyllus* (Lamarck, 1816)
- *Chicoreus clausii* (Dunker, 1879) : synonym of *Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) varius clausii* (Dunker, 1879)
- *Chicoreus cloveri* Houart, 1985: represented as *Chicoreus (Triplex) cloveri* Houart, 1985
- *Chicoreus gubbi* (Reeve, 1849) : synonym of *[Chicocenebra gubbi](/source/Chicocenebra_gubbi)* (Reeve, 1849)
- *Chicoreus guionneti* Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2002 : synonym of *[Siratus guionneti](/source/Siratus_guionneti)* (Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2001)
- *Chicoreus inflatus* (Lamarck, 1822) : synonym of *Chicoreus (Chicoreus) ramosus*
- *Chicoreus perelegans* Vokes, 1965 : synonym of *[Siratus perelegans](/source/Siratus_perelegans)* (Vokes, 1965)
- *Chicoreus subtilis* Houart, 1977 : synonym of *Chicoreus (Chicopinnatus) orchidiflorus* (Shikama, 1973)
- *Chicoreus superbus* (Sowerby, 1889) : synonym of *[Chicomurex superbus](/source/Chicomurex_superbus)* (Sowerby, 1889)

**Subgenus *Chicoreus* (*[Phyllonotus](/source/Phyllonotus)*) [Swainson](/source/William_Swainson), 1833**

In 2011, *Phyllonotus* was raised to the status of genus from its former state as subgenus of *Chicoreus*.[5]

- *Chicoreus erythrostomus* (Swainson, 1831): synonym of *[Hexaplex erythrostomus](/source/Hexaplex_erythrostomus)* (Swainson, 1831)
- *Chicoreus regius* (Swainson, 1821): synLamarckonym of *[Hexaplex regius](/source/Hexaplex_regius)* (Swainson, 1821)

## References

1. Montfort (1810). *Conch. Syst.* **2**: 610.

1. Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2010). Chicoreus Montfort, 1810. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487](http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487) on 2010-11-01

1. Rosenberg, Gary (2009). ["Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca"](http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?mode=findsnail&genus=chicoreus&associatedname=&author=&year=&yearend=&Search=Search). Retrieved 2013-11-27.

1. ["World Register of Marine Species"](http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205487). Retrieved 2013-11-27.

1. Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) *Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae*. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 114

## External links

- [Chicoreus ramosus](https://web.archive.org/web/20131030230529/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/C/Chicoreus_ramosus/), at zipcodezoo (archived from [the original](https://web.archive.org/web/20131030230529/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/C/Chicoreus_ramosus/))
- Another taxonomy at [\[2\]](http://www.taxonomy.nl/main/classification/36311.htm)[dead link]

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