muricidn.adj.
/ˈmjʊərᵻsɪd/, /ˈmjɔːrᵻsɪd/, U.S. /ˈmjʊrəˌsɪd/ Zoology.
A. n.
A predatory gastropod mollusc of the family Muricidae; a murex.
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1861 Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 207 The Cerites..were classed with the Muricids by Lamarck.
1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ii. 45 Some species bear nodules and spines like muricids.
1978 Ann. Natal Mus. 23 375 Several Red Sea species, including two muricids, have been reported from the waters of the Mediterranean.
1995 Veliger 38 266/2 Turner..reported the trivaricate muricid Murex (Alipurpa) coosensis..from the so-called lower and upper Umpqua of Southwestern Oregon.
B. adj.
Of or belonging to the family Muricidae.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > of superorder Branchifera > belonging to order Prosobranchiata > of section Siphonostomata > of family Muricidae
muricid1909
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Muricidæ .
1940 Amer. Midland Naturalist 24 373 Several species of muricid gasteropods, unfit either to withstand the action of the surf or to escape this zone, face the same destiny.
1977 Canad. Jrnl. Zool. 55 1846/1 Predation upon lamellibranchs or gastropods is regularly exhibited by both muricid and naticid gastropods.
1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) xi. 214/1 The reef-building organisms..may be food for certain animals, thus oysters support muricid gastropods.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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