Chicoreus brevifrons

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Muricoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Caenogastropoda Ordo: Neogastropoda Superfamilia: Muricoidea

Familia: Muricidae
Subfamilia: Muricinae
Genus: Chicoreus
Specie: Chicoreus brevifrons

Name[edit]

Chicoreus brevifrons (Lamarck, 1822)

Synonyms[edit]

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) vokesae Macsotay & Campos, 2001
Chicoreus (Triplex) brevifrons (Lamarck, 1822)
Murex approximatus Sowerby, 1879
Murex brevifrons Lamarck, 1822
Murex crassivaricosa Reeve, 1845
Murex elongatus Lamarck, 1822
Murex pudoricolor Reeve, 1845
Murex purpuratus Reeve, 1846
Murex spectrum var. incertum Usticke, 1969
Murex toupiollei Bernardi, 1860

References[edit]

Abbott, R.T. 1954: American Seashells. D. Van Nostrand Company Inc. xiv + 541 p. N.York..
Abbott, R.T. 1970: “How to Know the American Marine Shells”. Wm C. Brown Company Publishers. Iowa.
Clench, W.J. & Pérez Farfante, I. 1946: “The genus Murex in the Western Atlantic”. Johnsonia 1: 1–15.
Cervigón, F. & Velázquez, E. 1981: “Nombre vernaculos de organismos marinos del estado Nueva Esparta”. Editorial Arte. Caracas- Venezuela.
Leal, J.H. 2002: Gastropods. p. 99-147. In: Carpenter, K.E. (ed.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1: Introduction, molluscs, crustaceans, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, and chimaeras. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5. 1600p.
Martínez, E.R. 1985: “Observaciones acerca de Murex brevifrons Lamark, caracol marino depredador, frecuente en los manglares”. Natura 77: 33–34
Merle, D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. 2011: Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. page(s): 104
Morris, A.P. 1973: “A Field Guide to Shells of the Atlamtic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies”. Hougmon Mifflin Co Boston.
Rehder, H. & A. A. 1981: “The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Sea Shells”. Chantic Jeer Press Inc.
Rosenberg, G., Moretzsohn & García, E.F. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico. pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. & Camp, D.K. (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Reference page.
Warmke, G.L. & Abbott, R.T. 1961: Caribbean Seashells. Livingston Publishing Company. Narbeth. Pennsylvania.

External links[edit]

Chicoreus brevifrons in the World Register of Marine Species

Vernacular names[edit]

Deutsch: Kurzdornige Stachelschnecke oder Kurzsprossige Stachelschnecke
English: West Indian Murex
español: burro o chivato
português: West Indian murex, leafy-frond murex ou short-frond murex

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