Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Alternative spelling: Triplex
Parent taxon: Chicoreus according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010
See also Darragh 1970, Landau et al. 2007, Landau et al. 2008 and Vokes 1970
Sister taxa: Chicoreus (Chicoreus), Chicoreus (Chicoreus) florifer, Chicoreus (Naquetia), Chicoreus (Rhizophorimurex), Chicoreus (Siratus), Chicoreus asanoi, Chicoreus brunneus, Chicoreus jungi, Chicoreus ramosus, Chicoreus venezuelanus, Murex (Chicoreus) adelaidensis, Murex (Chicoreus) arrakanensis, Murex (Chicoreus) basicinctus, Murex (Chicoreus) capucinus, Murex (Chicoreus) longanensis, Murex (Chicoreus) lophoessus, Murex (Chicoreus) tenuicornis
Subtaxa: Chicoreus (Triplex) cornurectus Chicoreus (Triplex) foliosus Chicoreus (Triplex) rosaria Torvamurex
Type: Murex rosaria
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (4 collections), the Dominican Republic (11), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (5), Venezuela (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (9)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (8), the Dominican Republic (55), New Zealand (1), Puerto Rico (2), Trinidad and Tobago (3), United States (5: Florida), Venezuela (2)
Total: 109 collections each including a single occurrence