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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Muricoidea: Muricinae

Chicoreus spectrum (Reeve, 1846)


Range: 18°N to 15°S; 69°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 2 to 137 m (live 9 to 31 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 120  mm

Synonymy

Murex spectrum Reeve, 1846
Murex imbricatus Higgins & Marrat, 1877
Murex argo Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945

Details


Murex spectrum Reeve, 1846b, pl. 36, fig. 187
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Unknown
Range: 18°N to 15°S; 69°W to 34.9°W
Depth: 2 to 55 m (live 9 to 31 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 120 mm
Distribution: ABC Islands: Aruba, Bonaire; Venezuela: Sucre, Isla Margarita; Puerto Rico, Brazil: Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Bahia
References: Mello & Perrier (1986) E; Jong & Coomans (1988) lW; E. H. Vokes (1990b) M; Macsotay & Campos (2001) L
Comments: See also spectrum auct. = cosmani.

Murex (Chicoreus) argo Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945, p. 31-32, pl. 17
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: The Carinage, Grenada
Range: 15.5°N to 12°N; 61.7°W to 61.4°W
Depth: 55 to 137 m
Maximum Reported Size: 95 mm
Distribution: Dominica; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Grenada
References: A. H. Verrill (1949a) dNSEWM; A. H. Verrill (1950) D
Comments: Replacement name for Murex imbricatus Higgins & Marrat, 1877 non Brocchi, 1814.

Murex (Chicoreus) imbricatus Higgins & Marrat, 1877, p. 9-10, pl. 1, fig. 2
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: The Carinage, Grenada
Range: 12°N ; 61.7°W
Maximum Reported Size: 80 mm
Distribution: St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Grenada
References: Higgins & Marrat (1877) NSEWM
Comments: Non Brocchi, 1814.


Partial List of References

Clench, W. J. and I. Pérez Farfante. 1945. The genus Murex in the Western Atlantic Johnsonia 1(17) 1-58. [Stated date: 29 May 1945.]
Higgins, H. H. and F. P. Marrat. 1877. Mollusca of the Argo Expedition to the West Indies, 1876 Museum Report of the Free Public Library, Museum and Gallery of Art of the Borough of Liverpool 1 19 pp., 1 pl.
Reeve, L. 1846. Monograph of the genus Murex Conchologia Iconica 3 pls. 35-36

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