Murex Linnaeus 1758

Murex is a genus of snails in the family murex snails. Individuals can grow to 40.9 mm.

EOL has data for 16 attributes, including:

body length
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CMO_0000013
- Definition: A measurement of the longest dimension of a body, typically between two distinct ends of the body.
- Attribution: [database_cross_reference: Dorland:Dorlands_Illustrated_Medical_Dictionary--31st_Ed] [database_cross_reference: ISBN:978-1416049982]
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40.9 mm
body volume
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/BodyVolume
- Definition: Volume occupied by the whole body of one individual of this taxon
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6.17 cm^3
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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intertidal zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000316
- Definition: The area of the foreshore and seabed that is exposed to the air at low tide and submerged at high tide, i.e., the area between tide marks.
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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Italy
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3175395
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number of public records in bold
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
- Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)
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23
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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307.5 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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21.09 degrees celsius
wet body mass
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/bodyMassWet
- Definition: Mass of one individual of this taxon, living or fresh, without desiccation
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10.8 g

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Murex Linnaeus 1758. View this species on GBIF

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Murex includes 44 children: