#4795 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Purple Dye Murex

🇳🇱 Brandhoren ·Bolinus brandaris

🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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what is it?

Bolinus brandaris (originally called Murex brandaris by Linnaeus and also Haustellum brandaris), and commonly known as the purple dye murex or the spiny dye-murex , is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, an edible marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or the rock snails.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,019iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
2,019 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).