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Three shaped murex
Pterochelus triformis
Pterochelus triformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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Description
This sea snail is generally white shading to brown. The opening is shaped like an oval, with a complex series of channels extending throughout. They are predatory, drilling holes into the shells of organisms such as clams and barnacles to feed.
== References ==
Where it lives
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 698967.