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Chicoreus venezuelanus

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy

Murex venezuelanus was named by Hodson and Hodson (1931). Its type specimen is PRI 24101, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was synonymized subjectively with Murex (Chicoreus) brevifrons by Woodring (1959); it was recombined as Chicoreus (Chicoreus) venezuelanus by Vokes (1965); it was recombined as Chicoreus venezuelanus by Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. junghuhni, C. superbus, C. anuliferous, C. miltos, C. sextoni, Murex aldrichi, Murex microphyllus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1931	Murex venezuelanus Hodson and Hodson p. 37 figs. 18:1, 19:1-3
1965	Chicoreus (Chicoreus) venezuelanus Vokes p. 188 fig. 2:1a,b
2010	Chicoreus venezuelanus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 62

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Muricinae	da Costa 1776
genus	Chicoreus	Monfort 1810
species	venezuelanus	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Chicoreus venezuelanus Hodson and Hodson 1931

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

aragonitec

Locomotion:

actively mobilef

Life habit:

epifaunalf

Diet:

carnivoref

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2009-09-10 08:22:24

Modified:

2009-09-10 10:22:24

Source: f = family, c = class

References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Miocene to the top of the Tortonian or 11.60800 to 7.24600 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	Venezuela	Chicoreus venezuelanus (130981)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.608 - 5.333	Venezuela	Chicoreus venezuelanus (96488)