One quarter pound of Murex Indivia shells measuring 1 1/2 to 3 inches. *****

One quarter pound of Murex Indivia shells measuring 1 1/2 to 3 inches.

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Hexaplex Cichoreum, common name Endive Murex

The Endive Murex are medium-sized species of sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails

The Endive Murex is oblong, fusiform shell that varies between 2 to 6 inches. These shells ave a short spire consisting of eight to nine ventricose whorls that become flat-shouldered and thick with age. They are transversely ridged and striated. The shell shows six to seven frondose varices, with the fronds elevated and recurved. The umbilicus is rather large and deep. Its color is yellowish-brown, frequently banded with a darker tint. The fronds are usually dark brown or blackish. The white, almost round aperture has a rather long, open posterior siphonal canal that gradually widens, but is narrow and turns to the right at the beginning. lips are tinged with pink. There is also an all-white variety (var. albicans) from the Philippines.

(REF:Houart, R. (2013). Hexaplex cichoreum (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species ) (REF: G.W. Tryon (1880) Manual of Conchology II, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia) (REF: Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres... Par Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarc

The Endive Murex, sea snail distribution is restricted to the West Pacific. Regions where it is found include Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines

(REF: Poutiers, J. M. (1998). "Gastropods". In Carpenter, K. E.; Niem, V. H. (eds.). The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific Volume 1)

Scientific classification

Domain: Eukaryota

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

Subclass: Caenogastropoda

Order: Neogastropoda

Family: Muricidae

Genus: Hexaplex

Species: H. cichoreum

Binomial name: Hexaplex Cichoreum

(Gmelin, 1791)