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Chicoreus major Garrigues & Houart, 2025

HOLOTYPE

Specimen

MNHN-IM-2000-40129
119.3

Taxonomy

Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Chicoreus major Garrigues & Houart, 2025

Origin

South Taiwan Strait, Dongshan Isl., Fujian
South Taiwan Strait, Dongshan Isl., Fujian, China, trawled on gravel and sand bottom at 80 m deep

Determination

HOLOTYPE
, . - Description of six new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricoidea) from the East China Sea, the Red Sea, East Panama and Brazil and rehabilitation of Murex heros Fulton, 1936. Xenophora Taxonomy 48: 3-18
 
Citation: p. 6 pl. 3 fig. A-O (d.o.)