Chicomurex Arakawa 1964

Chicomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Chicomurex include:

• Chicomurex elliscrossi (Fair, 1974)^[2]
• Chicomurex excelsus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
• Chicomurex globus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2015
• Chicomurex gloriosus (Shikama, 1977)
• Chicomurex laciniatus (Sowerby II, 1841)^[3]
• Chicomurex lani Houart, Moe & Chen, 2014
• Chicomurex protoglobosus Houart, 1992^[4]
• Chicomurex pseudosuperbus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2015
• Chicomurex ritae Houart, 2013
• Chicomurex rosadoi Houart, 1999^[5]
• Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby III, 1889)^[6]
• Chicomurex tagaroae Houart, 2013
• Chicomurex turschi (Houart, 1981)^[7]
• Chicomurex vaulberti Houart & Lorenz, 2020
• Chicomurex venustulus (Rehder & Wilson, 1975)^[8]

Species brought into synonymy

• Chicomurex problematicus (Lan, 1981):^[9] 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