Chicoreus ( Triplex ) boucheti Houart, 1983

Houart, Roland & Héros, Virginie, 2008, Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga, Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 196, pp. 437-480 : 443

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5491335
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scientific name	Chicoreus ( Triplex ) boucheti Houart, 1983
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Chicoreus ( Triplex) boucheti Houart, 1983 View in CoL

Chicoreus boucheti Houart, 1983: 27 View in CoL , text figs 3-4, pl. 1, figs 1-2.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Fiji. SUVA 2: stn BS 10, 18°12’S, 178°30’E, 123 m, 1 dd juv (damaged) GoogleMaps .

Tonga. BORDAU 2: stn DW 1567, 21°02’S, 175°19’W, 351-356 m, 1 dd juv (damaged).

DISTRIBUTION. — New Caledonia, now Fiji and Tonga (new records), shells only in 123-351 m.

REMARKS. — Chicoreus boucheti has a typical broad and large protoconch consisting of 1¼ to 1½ whorls, and long, open spines in the extension of P1, P3 and P5.