Hexaplex rosarium

Chicoreus cnissodus
Shell of Hexaplex rosarium (Röding, 1798), with operculum, measuring 65.8 mm in height, trawled at 200 m off Ueno, in Japan.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Chicoreus
Subgenus: Triplex
Species: C. cnissodus
Binomial name
Chicoreus (Triplex) cnissodus
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]

Murex ananus Hinds, 1844
Murex beckii Philippi, 1847
Murex melonulus Lamarck, 1822
Murex sowerbianus Poirier, 1883
Purpura imperialis Schumacher, 1817
Purpura rosarium Röding, 1798

Chicoreus (Triplex) cnissodus Known as the smelly murex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Hexaplex rosarium (Röding, 1798).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.


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