Chicomurex

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|image = Chicomurex venustulus 001.jpg

|image_caption = Chicomurex venustulus

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|taxon = Chicomurex

|authority = Arakawa, 1964{

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms = Chicoreus (Chicomurex) Arakawa, 1964

|type_species = Murex superbus

|type_species_authority = Sowerby III, 1889

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Chicomurex is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.{{WRMS species|225425|Chicomurex Arakawa, 1964||1 November 2010}}

Species

Species within the genus Chicomurex include:

Chicomurex elliscrossi (Fair, 1974){{WRMS species|405847|Chicomurex elliscrossi (Fair, 1974)||25 April 2010}}
Chicomurex excelsus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2017
Chicomurex globus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2015
Chicomurex gloriosus (Shikama, 1977)
Chicomurex laciniatus (Sowerby II, 1841){{WRMS species|405849|Chicomurex laciniatus (Sowerby II, 1841)||25 April 2010}}
Chicomurex lani Houart, Moe & Chen, 2014
Chicomurex protoglobosus Houart, 1992{{WRMS species|405851|Chicomurex protoglobosus Houart, 1992||25 April 2010}}
Chicomurex pseudosuperbus Houart, Moe & C. Chen, 2015
Chicomurex ritae Houart, 2013
Chicomurex rosadoi Houart, 1999{{WRMS species|405852|Chicomurex rosadoi Houart, 1999||25 April 2010}}
Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby III, 1889){{WRMS species|405857|Chicomurex superbus (Sowerby, 1889)||25 April 2010}}
Chicomurex tagaroae Houart, 2013
Chicomurex turschi (Houart, 1981){{WRMS species|405853|Chicomurex turschi (Houart, 1981)||25 April 2010}}
Chicomurex vaulberti Houart & Lorenz, 2020
Chicomurex venustulus (Rehder & Wilson, 1975){{WRMS species|405854|Chicomurex venustulus (Rehder & Wilson, 1975)||25 April 2010}}

;Species brought into synonymy:

Chicomurex problematicus (Lan, 1981):{{WRMS species|405850|Chicomurex problematicus (Lan, 1981)||25 April 2010}} synonym of Chicomurex superbus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)

Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp
Houart R. , Moe C.O. & Chen C. , 2015. Description of two new species of Chicomurex from the Philippine Islands (Gastropoda: Muricidae) with update of the Philippines species and rehabilitation of Chicomurex gloriosus (Shikama, 1977). Venus 73(1-2): 1-14

[https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/venusjjm/22/4/22_KJ00004339628/_pdf/-char/en Arakawa K.Y. (1964). A study on the radulae of the Japanese Muricidae (2). The genera Vexilla, Nassa, Rapana, Murex, Chicoreus and Homalocantha. Venus. 22(4): 355-364, pl. 21]