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BRANCHED MUREX. 
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Generic Character. 
Animal allied to a Slug. 
Shell univalve, spiral, roughened by membra¬ 
naceous sutures. 
Aperture ending in a strait or subascending 
channel. 
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Specific Character, &c. 
Yellowish-brown transversely striated MUREX, 
with three longitudinal rows of foliaceous 
processes. 
The BRANCHED MUREX. 
Branched Purple-Shell. 
The genus Murex, distinguished in general by a 
peculiar irregularity of surface, affords few species 
more remarkable than the present, in which the spires 
of the shell are beset with numerous lengthened and 
expanded processes more or less divided or branched 
at their extremities. It is a native of the Indian 
and American seas, and sometimes exceeds the size 
of the specimens represented on the annexed plate. 
