Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889)

Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 437-480 : 446

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978-2-85653-614-8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491339

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scientific name

Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889)
status

 

Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889) View in CoL

Murex superbus Sowerby, 1889: 565 View in CoL , pl. 28, figs 10-11.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. BORDAU 1: stn DW 1472, 19°40’S, 178°10’W, 262-266 m, 2 lv, 1 juv. GoogleMaps

DISTRIBUTION. — Southeast Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Queensland ( Australia), New Caledonia and Fiji (new record), live in 262-266 m.

REMARKS. — Chicomurex superbus belongs to a group of species that also includes C. venustulus (Rehder & Wilson, 1975) and C. problematicus (Lan, 1981) . Their shells are up to 85 mm in length and bear 3 more or less spinose, abapical webbed varices, and all have a multispiral, conical, protoconch.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Mollusca

Class

Gastropoda

Order

Neogastropoda

Family

Muricidae

Genus

Chicomurex

Loc

Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889)

Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie 2008
2008
Loc

Murex superbus

Sowerby 1889: 565
1889
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