Chicoreus bundharmai

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]

Chicoreus bundharmai
Apertural view of Chicoreus bundharmai
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Muricoidea
Family:
Muricidae
Subfamily:
Muricinae
Genus:
Chicoreus
Subgenus:
Chicoreus
Species:
C. bundharmai
Binomial name
Chicoreus bundharmai
Houart, 1992
Synonyms[1]

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) bundharmai Houart, 1992

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50mm and 140mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Kalimantan, Indonesia and in the South China Sea off Vietnam.

gollark: No, start using faucets for UU-matter!
gollark: Won't that stop taking lava out if the fluiducts fill up?
gollark: Gregtech has a weirdly inconsistent attitude to realism.
gollark: In the sort of "modern" tech-mod packs I use energy is not really a huge problem unless you're pretty earlygame or need to do ridiculously large-scale stuff.
gollark: For that sort of thing I would probably just hook up automation and/or many blast furnaces.

References
  1. 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
  • "Chicoreus (Chicoreus) exuberans". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 25 June 2011.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.