Summary ²

Murex ternispina (also known as Murex Nigrospinosus) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Local Name ³

(Tamil) : All Murex sp. are referred to as Sangu Mullu or Kadal Mulli;

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1. (c) Vikas Madhav Nagarajan, all rights reserved, uploaded by Vikas Madhav Nagarajan
2. Adapted by Nanditha Ram Satagopan from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murex_ternispina
3. (c) Nanditha Ram Satagopan, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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