Hexaplex trunculus (previously known as Murex trunculus, Phyllonotus trunculus, or the banded dye-murex) is a medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod...
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Tekhelet (section Hexaplex trunculus)
the revival of its use in tzitzit. The snail Hexaplex trunculus (historically known as Murex trunculus) is widely considered to be the creature responsible...
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rock snails originally known by the name Murex (Bolinus brandaris, Hexaplex trunculus and Stramonita haemastoma). In ancient times, extracting this dye...
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(Reeve, 1843) † Hexaplex tapparonii (Bellardi, 1873) † Hexaplex tridentatus (Tate, 1888) Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758) † Hexaplex turonensis (Dujardin...
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Tyrian purple fabric dye. Sea snails of the species Banded dye-murex Hexaplex trunculus were also used to produce a purple-blue or indigo dye. In both cases...
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Drupa morum Drupella cornus Hadriania trunculata Haustellum haustellum Hexaplex radix Homalocantha zamboi Indothais malayensis Lataxiena fimbriata Latiaxis...
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brandaris, produced a more bluish color than those of the south, probably Hexaplex trunculus. The most valued shades were said to be those closer to the color...
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"murex", Murex brandaris and Murex trunculus, which are the older names for Bolinus brandaris and Hexaplex trunculus. This dye is a rare animal-produced...
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regarded Erspamer's work on Octopus vulgaris, Discoglossus pictus, Hexaplex trunculus, Bolinus brandaris, Sepia, Mytilus, and Ostrea as valid and fundamental...
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colon, abdominal, and leukaemia cancers. Extracts from the glands of Hexaplex trunculus showed possible adhesion inhibition of cervical and glioblastoma cells...
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relations the spiny dye-murex Bolinus brandaris, the banded dye-murex Hexaplex trunculus and the rock-shell Stramonita haemastoma which provided the red-purple...
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dyed with a specific kind of dye derived from a mollusc (notably the Hexaplex trunculus sea snail). Due to a number of factors, including Rome outlawing the...
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Diplodus vulgaris, Labrus merula and Coris julis and the gastropod, Hexaplex trunculus. The spiny starfish (Marthasterias glacialis) is a main predator elsewhere...
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species Phorcus turbinatus, Patella caerulea, Stramonita haemastoma, Hexaplex trunculus, among other species. In 2020, archaeologists discovered evidence...
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Hexaplex duplex is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. Both subspecies are now...
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two types, now known the one as Bolinus brandaris, and the other as Hexaplex trunculus, nowadays classified within two different genera) from which it was...
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gleaned from the hypobroncial gland of the Murex trunculus (which has been reclassified as Hexaplex trunculus), said to have cost 20 times its weight in gold...
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superbus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1889) Phyllonotus trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758) Phyllonotus unifasciatus A. Adams...
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shells of murex shells (correctly, specimens of Bolinus brandaris and Hexaplex trunculus) along the western slope can still be seen. This artificial mound...
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symbiotic bacteria. Suberites often live on the shells on the mollusk Hexaplex trunculus. Suberites have mechanisms of defense against predation, such as the...
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1758) Coralliophila squamosa (Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838) Hexaplex trunculus (Linnaeus, 1758) Muricopsis cristata (Brocchi, 1814) Ocenebra erinaceus...
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