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Purpura
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Purpura

Purpura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Toad purpura

speciesPurpura bufo

Salmon-Lipped Whelk

speciesPurpura panama

Purpura persica

speciesPurpura persica

Purpura dumosa

speciesPurpura dumosa

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Purpura in Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 1) (1750)

Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 1) (1750)

Mark Catesby · 1750 · p.58

Purpura in Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.835

Purpura in Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.833

Purpura in De medicinali materia libri sex

De medicinali materia libri sex

Dioscorides · 1552 · p.356

Purpura in History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

History of Animals, Book II: On Oviparous Quadrupeds

Conrad Gessner · 1586 · p.611

Purpura in Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)

Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)

Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.565

Purpura in History of Rare Plants

History of Rare Plants

Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.559

Purpura in Ulyssis Aldrovandi ... De reliquis animalibus exanguibus, utpote de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis & zoophytis, libri quatuor post mortem eius editi

Ulyssis Aldrovandi ... De reliquis animalibus exanguibus, utpote de mollibus, crustaceis, testaceis & zoophytis, libri quatuor post mortem eius editi

Aldrovandi, Ulisse · 1618 · p.98

Purpura in History of Monsters

History of Monsters

Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.706

Purpura in Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch — Schnecken und Muscheln (1770)

Georg Wolfgang Knorr; Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch · 1770 · p.39

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In the stacks

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 246779.