Summary ³

Murex trapa, common name the rare-spined murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc of the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Local Name ⁴

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

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

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