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Giant Atlantic Murex
Hexaplex fulvescens
Hexaplex fulvescens, the Giant Eastern Murex or Giant Atlantic Murex or Tawny Murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
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Description
Shells of Hexaplex fulvescens can reach a size of 60–223 millimetres (2.4–8.8 in). These snails are massive and spinose and they are the largest muricid snails of the Western Atlantic (hence the common name). They have several straight or bifurcate spines arranged in 6-10 radial rows with spiraling ridges. Snail surface may be whitish, grayish or pale brown, the aperture is oval with crenulate edges. The siphonal canal is short.
Range & habitat
This species is native to the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to Cape Canaveral, Florida and it is also present in the Gulf of Mexico from Florida west to Texas.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 254914.