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title: "Banded Dye-murex"
description: "Hexaplex trunculus — Other animals. Hexaplex trunculus (previously known as Murex trunculus, Phyllonotus trunculus, or the banded dye-murex) is a medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/banded-dye-murex
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Banded Dye-murex

> Hexaplex trunculus — Other animals. Hexaplex trunculus (previously known as Murex trunculus, Phyllonotus trunculus, or the banded dye-murex) is a medium-sized  sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails.

- Scientific name: *Hexaplex trunculus*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `sea` (Sea & coast)
- iNaturalist observations: 4591
- Wikidata: [Q2306412](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2306412)
- iNaturalist taxon: [326443](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/326443)

## Names

- en: Banded Dye-murex
- de: Stumpfe Stachelschnecke
- es: Corneta
- fr: Rocher fascié

## Countries with the most observations

GR (1062), ES (728), IT (687), FR (463), HR (422), AL (186), PT (105), SI (75), IL (70), TR (66), ME (47), TN (28)

## Summary

Hexaplex trunculus (previously known as Murex trunculus, Phyllonotus trunculus, or the banded dye-murex) is a medium-sized  sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex shells or rock snails. It is included in the subgenus Trunculariopsis.
This species is one of a group of opportunist predatory snails that are known to attack their prey in groups. Unlike some other sea snails, they show no preference for the size of their prey, regardless of their hunger levels.
The snail first appears in fossil records dating between the Pliocene and Quaternary periods (between 3.6 and 0.012 million years…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexaplex_trunculus

## Photo

![Banded Dye-murex](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/banded-dye-murex/medium.jpg)

Photo: M. B. · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/343290838

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/banded-dye-murex?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).