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Muricidae

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Muricidae [‚myu̇′ris·ə‚dē]
(invertebrate zoology)
A family of predatory gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda; contains the rock snails.
Muricidae 

a family of marine gastropod mollusks of the subclass Prosobranchia. The shell is spirally wound, often with thorn-like or needle-like processes. The mantle contains a pair of glands, whose secretions were used in antiquity to obtain Tyrian purple for dyeing textiles. Muricidae are most numerous in tropical and subtropical seas; in the USSR there are several species in the Black, Far Eastern (the genus Rapana), and Northern seas. All Muricidae are predators, boring into the shells of other mollusks with an acid secretion (saliva) and eating their bodies.
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Boring snails, including those in the families Muricidae, Naticidae, and likely Ranellidae, are major predators on skate eggs and predation rates in nursery grounds can reach 40% or more (Lucifora and Garcla, 2004; Hoff, 2007).
All their eggs in one basket: a rocky reef nursery for the longnose ... by Love, Milton S.; Schroeder, Donna M.; Snook, Linda; York, Anne; Cochrane, Guy / Fishery Bulletin
The results suggested that Muricidae gastropod species, sea urchins and polychaetes might also be potential predators for H.
Survival, growth and recruitment of abalone Haliotis diversicolor in ... by Onitsuka, Toshihiro; Kawamura, Tomohiko; Horii, Toyomitsu; Takiguchi, Naoyuki; Watanabe, Yoshiro / Journal of Shellfish Research
2004) reported that members of the Muricidae in the northern hemisphere show striking variation in chromosome number.
Karyotype composition in three California abalones and their ... by Gallardo-Escarate, Cristian; del Rio-Portilla, Miguel Angel / Journal of Shellfish Research
 
 
 
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