''Chicoreus brianbaileyi'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Chicoreus brianbaileyi (Mühlhäusser, 1984). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=866011 on 2022-02-27]
Description
Distribution
''C. brianbaileyi'' can be found in the waters surrounding the
Solomon Islands.
[Houart, R. (1989). "Description of a new species of ''Pterynotus'' (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Norfolk Island." ''New Zealand Journal of Zoology'' 16: (273–276).]
References
Muricidae
Gastropods described in 1984
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