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Muricidae

88 species · Animals

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Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Muricidae

Chicoreus ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Chicoreus ramosus, the ramose murex, is a distinctive Indo-West Pacific sea snail found in shallow reef areas.

Bolinus brandaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bolinus brandaris, the purple dye murex, is an edible predatory sea snail historically used to make Tyrian purple dye.

Hexaplex princeps (Broderip, 1833)

Hexaplex princeps is a species of marine gastropod mollusk sea snail in the murex snail family Muricidae.

Hexaplex fulvescens (G.B.Sowerby II, 1834)

Hexaplex fulvescens is a large uncommon spiny sea snail native to the western Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.

Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Hexaplex trunculus is a variable-shaped murex snail native to Mediterranean and Atlantic waters, historically used for dye and still eaten today.

Phyllonotus pomum (Gmelin, 1791)

Phyllonotus pomum is a sea snail species with a characteristic shell, found in western Atlantic waters from North Carolina to Northern Brazil.

Prototyphis angasi (Crosse, 1863)

Prototyphis angasi is a species of marine murex sea snail found in South Australia.

Pterochelus triformis (Reeve, 1845)

Pterochelus triformis is a predatory brownish-white sea snail that drills into prey shells to feed.

Muricanthus nigritus (R.A.Philippi, 1845)

Muricanthus nigritus is a species of large, striped spiny sea snail found in intertidal and subtidal waters off western Mexico.

Mipus arbutum (Woolacott, 1954)

Mipus arbutum is a species of marine gastropod mollusk sea snail in the murex/rock snail family Muricidae.

Haustrum scobina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Haustrum scobina is an endemic New Zealand marine snail with a shell 14–35 mm long that lives in inter-tidal zones.

Haustrum haustorium (Gmelin, 1791)

Haustrum haustorium is a New Zealand rock snail identifiable by its near-perpendicular shell aperture lip insertion angle.

Bedeva paivae (Crosse, 1864)

Bedeva paivae is a species of murex sea snail whose holotype was found off Antarctica between Isles Saint Paul and Amsterdam.

Bedeva vinosa (Lamarck, 1822)

Bedeva vinosa (Lamarck, 1822) is a species of murex sea snail that is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae.

Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814)

Muricopsis cristata is a common variable-sized marine snail found across the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Red Sea.

Maxwellia gemma (G.B.Sowerby II, 1879)

Maxwellia gemma is a moderately sized marine snail with a distinct colored shell found along the Pacific coast of North America.

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