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Murex Seashells |
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Murex Sea Shells Murex are famous for their fantastic variety of ornamentation and sculpture, and they rate high in popularity with collectors. Many murexes are colorful, but the majority are rather plainly colored, their beauty being in the wonderful frondose spines, webbed wings, lacy frills, and knobby whorls. Murex seashells occupy a multitude of habitats from the Tropics to Polar regions. They feed on other mollusks, especially bivalves and are found on sandy mud flats.
There many types of murex seashells to choose from. Including the Venus Comb Murex which has spines that are very fragile. The Murex Brassica, Regal Murex, Black Murex, and Root Radix Murex are heavy, hearty, thick shells. |
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