>Of course Pteropurpura trialata is a Murex. A little knowledge can
>be dangerous.
It's a murex, not a Murex (of course i missed the uppercase in me
previous posting). Murex is a genus; murex is not.
It's just as easy to learn correct taxonomy as incorrect. There are
no alternative usages. P. trialata is in genus Pteropurpura, not
Murex.
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