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Purple Dye Murex

Photo: Bernat Garrigós · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC

Insects and other invertebrates

Purple Dye Murex

Bolinus brandaris

Observations in the area
1
Last sighting
7 April 2025
Category
Insects and other invertebrates
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The species

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.

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