Back

dye murex

Bolinus brandaris

Classification

Family
Muricidae

Bolinus brandaris (originally called Murex brandaris by Linnaeus and also Haustellum brandaris), and commonly known as the purple dye murex or the spiny dye-murex, is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, an edible marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or the rock snails. This species is known in the fossil record from the Pliocene (age range: from 3. 6 to 2.

Distribution

(c) H. Zell, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC-BY-SA
Loading map…
Countries in the Picchu catalog
Spain · 438Italy · 395France · 360Germany · 1Netherlands · 1