Chicoreus ryukyuensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
The shell is around 40mm long and 20mm wide, pinkish white with orange tints. It has 7.5 lined with short spines down to a siphonal canal.
The species was discovered near the Okinawa Islands, part of the Ryukyu island chain after which it was named.