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. 2015 Aug 18;13(8):5237–5275. doi: 10.3390/md13085237

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Examples of Muricidae resources: Shell diversity (a) Chicoreus ramosus (Linnaeus, 1758); (b) Chicoreus virgineus (Röding, 1798); (c) Dicathais orbita (Gmelin, 1791); (d) Murex pecten (Lightfoot, 1786); Harvested Murex (e) on sale at a seafood market in Vietnam, and (f) processed for the seashell industry in India; Tyrian purple in the egg capsules of (g) D. orbita and (h) Phycothais reticulata (Quoy and Gaimard, 1833); (i) Operculum from D. orbita; (j) Tyrian purple; (k) indole, indirubin and isatin pigments; (l) Murex homeopathic remedy.