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Description: | The Venus Comb Murex is found in deep water throughout the Indian and Pacific oceans. The function of the long, delicate spines that grow on it's shell is still a mystery. Biologists think that they might help to prevent the murex from sinking into the soft sand that it lives upon. They may also help to protect the animal from predators. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East animals natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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