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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex purpureus Montagu, 1803 
AphiaID: 154087

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeogastropoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMuricinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex (Genus)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted (original combination)
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorRaphitoma purpurea (Montagu, 1803)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex Linnaeus, 1758
Sources 
source of synonymy Check List of European Marine Mollusca (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:154087
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-16 10:28:02Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-12-02 14:47:43Z  checked  Tucker, John
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Murex purpureus Montagu, 1803. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=154087 on 2013-12-11
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