Chicoreus cornucervi

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}

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| image = WLA hmns Chicoreus Cornucervi.jpg

| image_caption = A shell of the staghorn murex, Chicoreus cornucervi

| genus = Chicoreus

| species = cornucervi

| authority = (Röding, 1798)

| synonyms_ref = {{WRMS species|405333|Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornucervi (Röding, 1798)||21 December 2010}}

| synonyms =

  • Murex aranea Blainville in Kiener, 1822
  • Murex monodon Sowerby, 1825
  • Purpura cornucervi Röding, 1798

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File:Chicoreus cornucervi.jpg of Chicoreus cornucervi(Röding, 1798), with operculum measuring 101.4 mm in height, collected at low tide in rocky crevice at One Arm Point, in Broome, Australia. ]]

Chicoreus (Chicoreus) cornucervi, common name staghorn murex or toothed murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 50 mm and 148 mm

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Distribution

This species is distributed along Northwest Australia and Western Papua New Guinea.

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