Chicoreus bundharmai


The bundharma's murex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 50mm and 140mm. First and second teleoconch whorls have 10 axial ribs. The shell is light brown with darker spinal cords, and brown peripheral band at adapical part of whorls. Aperture (mollusc) whitish with pink rim.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Kalimantan, Indonesia and in the East Sea off Vietnam.