Venus comb murex
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 Venus Comb Murex, Murex pectens. From Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur, 1904.
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| Murex pecten Lightfoot, 1786 |
The Venus comb murex, scientific name Murex pecten, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.
[edit] Distribution
This species is native to Indo-Pacific waters.
[edit] Shell description
The shell of this snail has an extremely long siphonal canal.
The shell has over one hundred spines, which provide protection from predation, and prevent the snail from sinking in the soft mud. Like many other murex snails, it feeds on other mollusks.
This is a common species, but perfect specimens of the shell are not readily found because of the fragility of the numerous long spines. The species grows to between 10 and 15 cm in length.
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