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Apple Murex

Phyllonotus pomum

Classification

Family
Muricidae

Phyllonotus pomum, the apple murex, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Description The adult shell's dimensions range from 44 mm to 133 mm. Original description of Lovell Augustus Reeve (published 1843): The shell is fusiformly oblong, thick, solid, very rough throughout, transversely conspicuously ridged, tuberculated between the varices; three-varicose, varices tuberculated with a complicated mass of laminae; fulvous or reddish brown, columella and interior of the aperture ochraceous yellow, columellar…

Distribution

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United States of America · 571Mexico · 12France · 11Cuba · 3United Kingdom · 3Netherlands · 1