''Chicoreus dunni'' is a

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of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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in the

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Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Ne ...

, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

Original description: "Shell small for genus, slender, elongated, with elevated spire and long siphonal canal; body whorl with 3 varices; intervarical regions with 1 large rounded knob, varices with 6 highly fimbriated, long, slender, recurved spines; siphonal varices with 3 very elongated, slender, recurved, needle-like spines; body whorl with 6 highly fimbriated spiral cords; aperture large, oval; shell color uniformly very dark blackish-brown; edge of parietal shield orange; interior of aperture brown; spines of siphonal canal always longer than spines on varices."

Distribution

Locus typicus: "South-Eastern end of Eleuthera Island, Bahamas."Petuch, E.J. 1987-''New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas'', page 53. Publ: CERF

References

Muricidae Gastropods described in 1987 {{Muricidae-stub