''Chicoreus austramosus'' is a
species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...
of
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
, a marine
gastropod mollusk in the
family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Description
Size 4–6 cm
Distribution
Durban, Rep. South Africa
References
Gastropods described in 1978
Chicoreus
{{Muricinae-stub