| The earliest form of purple dye was produced by squeezing shellfish called the murex sea mussel or porphura. |
| Punic interests were turned toward commerce rather than art, and Carthage controlled much of the Western trade in the luxurious purple dye from the murex shell. |
| It was also renowned for its purple fabrics and that colour, made from the decomposition of a shellfish, the murex, became a world-wide symbol of royalty. |
| The term codex aureus describes a volume with gold letters written on sheets that have been stained with a purple dye called murex. |
| They eat turtle and drink claret, but who fished up the murex? |
| This genus stands in the same relation to Cerithium as the Typhis to murex. |
