#4768 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs

Banded Dye-murex

🇳🇱 Gebandeerde purperstekelhoren ·Hexaplex trunculus

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

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Pascal GIRARD · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Fotios Christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
4. © Federico Boscolo · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Fotios Christodoulou · CC BY 4.0
6. © Dean Zagorac · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Carmen B. de los Santos · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Hexaplex trunculus (also known as Murex trunculus , Phyllonotus trunculus , or the banded dye-murex ) is a medium-sized species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,730iNaturalist 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.
4,730 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).