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Murex pecten (Venus comb murex)

Synonyms: Murex pecten soelae; Murex tribulus var. pecten; Murex triremis

Wikipedia Abstract

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.The shell of this Indo-Pacific species has a very long siphonal canal, and numerous spines.
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Infraspecies

Murex pecten pecten

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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0