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Bolinus
Sign in to saveBolinus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species
Purple Dye Murex
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyMuricidae
Habitatmarine
Observations1,799
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Muricidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UCMP, MNHN, CHAS, UF, USNM
- Recorded in
- Italy, Etats-Unis, Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Senegal
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- Bolinus
- taxon name
- Bolinus
- taxon rank
- genus
- start time
- 15900000-0
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Bolinus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
This genus is known in the fossil record from the Miocene to the Pliocene period (age range: from 15.97 to 2.588 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found in Cyprus, Austria, Italy and Turkey.
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