Chicoreus cnissodus

Chicoreus cnissodus
	Shell of Chicoreus cnissodus, with operculum, measuring 65.8 mm in height, trawled at 200 m off Ueno, in Japan.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Chicoreus
Species:	C. cnissodus
Binomial name
	Chicoreus cnissodus; (Euthyme, 1889)
Synonyms
	Chicoreus (Triplex) cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889)· accepted, alternate representation; Chicoreus (Triplex) cnissodus ceylonensis Houart, 2015· accepted, alternate representation; Chicoreus (Triplex) cnissodus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889)· accepted, alternate representation; Chicoreus cnissodus ceylonensis Houart, 2015· accepted, alternate representation; Chicoreus cnissodus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889)· accepted, alternate representation; Murex cnissodus Euthyme, 1889; Murex minor Euthyme, 1889;

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

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Sri Lanka.

^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Chicoreus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=558805 on 2020-08-07

Houart R. (2015). Description of a new subspecies of Chicoreus (Triplex) cnissodus cnissodus (Euthyme, 1889) (Gastropoda, Muricidae) from Sri Lanka. The Festivus. 47(1): 29–35
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

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