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Chicoreus

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy

Chicoreus was named by Monfort (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-u R Sepkoski's reference number: 614]. It is extant. Its type is Murex ramosus.

It was reranked as Murex (Chicoreus) by Tate (1888), Oostingh (1935), Mukerjee (1939), Gardner (1947), Gardner (1948) and Woodring (1959).

It was assigned to Gastropoda by Montfort (1810); to Murex by Tate (1888), Oostingh (1935), Mukerjee (1939), Gardner (1947), Gardner (1948) and Woodring (1959); to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002); to Muricidae by Ladd (1982), Todd (2001) and Landau et al. (2007); and to Muricinae by MacNeil (1960), Vokes (1989), Wilson (1994) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Species

C. (Chicoreus), C. (Chicoreus) florifer, C. (Naquetia), C. (Rhizophorimurex), C. (Siratus), C. (Triplex), C. asanoi (syn. C. (Rhizophorimurex) tiganouranus), C. brunneus, C. jungi, C. ramosus, C. venezuelanus, Murex (Chicoreus) adelaidensis, Murex (Chicoreus) arrakanensis, Murex (Chicoreus) basicinctus, Murex (Chicoreus) capucinus, Murex (Chicoreus) longanensis, Murex (Chicoreus) lophoessus, Murex (Chicoreus) tenuicornis

Species lacking formal opinion data

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

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1810	Chicoreus Monfort
1810	Chicoreus Montfort
1888	Murex (Chicoreus) Tate p. 97
1935	Murex (Chicoreus) Oostingh p. 65
1939	Murex (Chicoreus) Mukerjee p. 61
1947	Murex (Chicoreus) Gardner p. 520
1948	Murex (Chicoreus) Gardner p. 218
1959	Murex (Chicoreus) Woodring p. 216
1960	Chicoreus MacNeil p. 62
1982	Chicoreus Ladd p. 42
1989	Chicoreus Vokes p. 31
1994	Chicoreus Wilson p. 27
2001	Chicoreus Todd
2002	Chicoreus Sepkoski
2007	Chicoreus Landau et al. p. 16
2010	Chicoreus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 61

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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

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.

G. Chicoreus Monfort 1810

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Subg. Chicoreus (Chicoreus) Montfort 1810

†Chicoreus (Chicoreus) aquitanicus Grateloup 1833

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) brevifrons Lamarck 1822

†Chicoreus (Chicoreus) bullisi Vokes 1974

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) clausii Dunker 1879

†Chicoreus (Chicoreus) corrigendum Vokes 1989

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cosmani Abbott and Finlay 1979

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) dilectus Adams 1854

†Chicoreus (Chicoreus) dujardinoides Vokes 1963

†Chicoreus (Chicoreus) elusivus Vokes 1974