Chicocenebra gubbi


Chicocenebra gubbi, common name : Gubb's murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The shell size varies between 34 mm and 45 mm
It is also described in the Conchologia Iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals as a:

Shell triangularly fusiform, contracted towards the base, whorls depressly concave round the upper part, transversly granosely striated and ridged, ridges irregularly nodolous, three-varicose, varices frondose, fronds narrow, irregular, a single middle one bifurcated, the uppermost frond much the larger, peculiary hooked; lip conpisciously toothed, cinder black, fulvous in front near the base, interior of the aperture bluish-white.

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola and Senegal.