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1 seychelles gastropod id
11-28-2007, 11:35 AM,
#1
1 seychelles gastropod id
Hi,

This is a muricidae : <i>Purpura bufo</i> Lamarck, 1822

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11-28-2007, 01:50 PM,
#2
1 seychelles gastropod id
thanks zonatus.
Is Thais bufo an other specie or a synonym of P. bufo?
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11-28-2007, 05:52 PM,
#3
1 seychelles gastropod id
Hi all,
Can somebody help in identyfying this 42mm shell from Indian Ocean (Seychelles - Mahé island). I cant even place the family (Muricidae? Melongenidae?)
Thank you.

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11-29-2007, 10:19 AM,
#4
1 seychelles gastropod id
Depends on which book you read! Could be either Thais or Purpura but bufo is the same.
Dave
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11-29-2007, 12:27 PM,
#5
1 seychelles gastropod id
They are synonym. I am not a muricidae specialist, so I don't know which one is valide now. The Digital Murex (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~molluscs/murex28/index.htm">http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~mollu ... /index.htm</a><!-- m -->) says it's Purpura.
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