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Bolinus
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Bolinus

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

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Purple Dye Murex

speciesBolinus brandaris

horned murex

speciesBolinus cornutus

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Recorded sightings

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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 61790.