Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815

Houart, Roland, Russini, Valeria, Fassio, Giulia & Oliverio, Marco, 2025, Developmental types and a new cryptic species of Chicoreus (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 5723 (2), pp. 245-267 : 255

Subfamily Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815

Remarks. Recently, muricids have been typically classified into 12 subfamilies (e.g.: Houart 2018; Merle et al. 2022), integrating information from molecular phylogenetics ( Barco et al. 2010, 2012) and anatomical and shell characters. However, the most recent molecular phylogenetic analysis ( Russini et al. 2023), provided strong evidence to restrict the concept of the subfamily Muricinae s.s. to the clade including the type genus ( Murex ) and related taxa ( Bolinus , Chicomurex , Chicoreus , Haustellum , Hexaplex , Muricanthus , Naquetia , Phyllonotus , Siratus , Vokesimurex ), thus excluding from the subfamily the genera Timbellus , Flexopteron , Ponderia , and Pterynotus as in part already suggested by Barco et al. (2010) and Merle et al. (2011).

Genus Chicoreus Montfort, 1810

Subgenus Triplex Perry, 1810

Type species (by monotypy): Triplex foliatus Perry, 1810 (= Murex palmarosae Lamarck, 1822 ), Indo-West Pacific.