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Live Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa), Black Sea (13 August 2008)
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[Purpura].
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Murex Perforateur de Coquilles Bivalves.
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Murex pomum.
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Oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinirea). Drawn from shell.
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Rock Snails (Purpura lapillus) devouring barnacles upon a rock at Annisquam, Mass..
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Murex erlinacerus (Linnaeux).
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Veined Rapa Whelk (Rapana venosa)
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Purpura consul (Linnaeus).
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Oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea) boring the shell of a scallop. Five drills were found on the specimen, but one rolled off when the photograph was taken. The drill bores a fine hole through the shell by means of a ribbon-like tongue lined with saw-like teeth, and then sucks out the contents.
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Purpura lapillus (Linnaeus).
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Murex tenuispina L., Ceylon.
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Purpura crispata.
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Oyster drill (Urosalpinx cinerea) boring the shell of a scallop. Five drills were found on the specimen, but one rolled off when the photograph was taken. The drill bores a fine hole through the shell by means of a ribbon-like tongue lined with saw-like t.
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Purpura lapillus.
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Murex tarentinus.
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Borers, or 'Snails';(Purpura Haemostoma). Their Egg Cases, and Oyster Spat Drilled By Them, Bay Tambour, Louisiana
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Murex tennispina (Lamarck).
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Purpura lapillus, banded variety.
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Murex tenuispina.
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Egg-capsules of Purpura lapillus. Egg-capsules of Buccinum undatum; Egg-case of Polynices heros
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Latirus albus, Jeffereys.
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Purpura lapillus.
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Magilus antiquus L.: A, the adult, imbedded in coral, which has been broken away to show the tube; B, the young (free) form.
