[A108211] Chicoreus capucinus (Lamarck, 1822)

This is a shell of Chicoreus capucinus (Lamarck, 1822) found on the Kuta Beach in Bali Island, Indonesia. Chicoreus capucinus, the “mangrove murex”, is a type of sea snail known as the “murex snails”, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae. Although the shells of murex snails in the genus Chicoreus usually have intricate shapes with superb spines, there is no apparent spines on such a species.