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| Venus Comb Murex |
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Murex
Species: M. pecten
Scientific Name: Murex pecten
The Venus Comb Murex is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk.
The shell of this Indo-Pacific species has a very 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 easily 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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