Bolinus brandaris   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Purple dye murex

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2100
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Gastropoda | Neogastropoda | Muricidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 1 - 200 m (Ref. 105998).  Subtropical, preferred 20°C (Ref. 107945); 45°N - 30°N, 10°W - 36°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean: from Portugal to central Morocco in the Atlantic, and east to Lebanon. Introduced in Atlantic Spain.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm 5.6, range 4 - ? cm Max length : 10.8 cm ShL male/unsexed; (Ref. 127250); max. published weight: 79.70 g (Ref. 127250)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Has high economic value since ancient times because it is used to produce a purple dye (Refs. 78459, 78460 and 78461). Carnivorous and feeds on bivalves and other gastropods (Ref. 2532). GSI of females read off from Ref. 127250 (p. 76, Fig. 6a) using WebPlotDigitizer. Spawning peak was from June to July (Ref. 127250).

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Showed an annual reproductive cycle in the Catalan coast. The reproductive cycle had two peaks (April and June -July) but the first one seems to be less important because the number of immature females is higher than the mature ones.

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Museum of Natural History in Paris. 2005. (Ref. 1056)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 126983)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates of some properties based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 16.2 - 21.6, mean 19.3 (based on 132 cells).
Prior r = 0.97, 95% CL = 0.64 - 1.46, Based on 1 stock assessment.
Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.