Chicoreus ryukyuensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

[1] The shell is around 40mm long and 20mm wide, pinkish white with orange tints.

It has 7.5 volutes lined with short spines down to a siphonal canal.

[2] The species was discovered near the Okinawa Islands, part of the Ryukyu island chain after which it was named.

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