A 8 to 9" single Pacific Ramosus Murex shell

A single Pacific Ramosus Murex shell, measuring 8 to 9 inches.

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Chicoreus Ramosus, common name Ramose Murex

Ramose Murex are predatory sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails. It is considered an economically important species in the Indo-West Pacific, especially in India.

(REF:Poutiers, J. M. (1998). "Gastropods". In Carpenter, K. E.; Niem, V. H. (eds.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods)

These sea snails are found widely spread in the Indo-West Pacific, and from east to South Africa, including Mozambique, Tanzania, Madagascar, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Oman, Aldabra, Chagos and Mauritius. They also dwell in eastern Polynesia, southern Japan, New Caledonia and Queensland in Australia.

(REF:) Poutiers, J. M. (1998). "Gastropods". In Carpenter, K. E.; Niem, V. H. (eds.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods) (REF: Chicoreus ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species)

Chicoreus Ramosus have a large, solid, very rugged and heavy shell, that can grow up to 13 inches in length. It has a relatively globose outline, possessing a short spire, a slightly inflated body whorl, and a moderately long siphonal canal. One of its most striking ornamentations are the conspicuous, leaf-like, recurved hollow digitations. It also presents three spinose axial varices per whorl, with two elongated nodes between them. The shell is colored white to light brown externally, with a white aperture, generally pink towards the inner edge, the outer lip and the columella.

(REF:) Poutiers, J. M. (1998). "Gastropods". In Carpenter, K. E.; Niem, V. H. (eds.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods) (REF: Chicoreus ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species)

The Ramose murex inhabits sandy and rubble bottoms near coral reefs, to depths of around 33 feet

The Chicoreus Ramosus are carnivorous primarily preying on bivalves and other gastropods.

(REF: Poutiers, J. M. (1998). "Gastropods". In Carpenter, K. E.; Niem, V. H. (eds.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1. Seaweeds, corals, bivalves and gastropods)