Purpura persica
| Purpura persica | |
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| Shell of Purpura persica on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Rapaninae |
| Genus: | Purpura |
| Species: | P. persica |
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Purpura persica (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Purpura persica, common name : the Persian purpura, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
The shell size of Purpura persica varies between 60 mm and 110 mm. It is a large and thick shell, with large body whorl and a very expanded aperture. The surface shows a chocolate-brown color and it is sculptured with spiralled, beaded cords.
This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania and the East Coast of South Africa, in the Southwest Pacific and along Japan.
These sea snails prefer shallow rocky areas.
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