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Murex snails are no longer used as dyes because this use led to over harvesting and near extinction of the species. A synthetic dye that is close to the original color of the snail dye is now used instead.
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What was the snails name that Phoenician used to make purple dye?
A species of tropical marine snail belonging to the Murex genus, or more specifically the Murex brandaris and Murex trunculus sp., more commonly referred to simply as the Murex, as by Aristotle, used to used to make 'Tyrian Purple' dye.
What sort of creature does the term 'murex' refer to?
The term murex is used to refer to a medium - large sized tropical sea snail. These snails are carnivorous marine molluscs. They are also often refered to as 'rock snails'.
What is the murex snail?
Murex is a genus of medium to large sized predatory tropical sea snails. These are carnivorous marine gastropod nolluscs in the family Muricidae, the murexes or rock snails. The common name "murex" is also used for a large number of species in the family Muricidae, most of which in the past were originally given the Latin generic name Murex, but most of which have now been grouped in other newer genera. Source for more info is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia online
What Tropical sea snail is used to make tyrian dye?
The tropical sea snail that is used to make tyrian dye is the purple dye murex or spiny dye-murex), its scientific name being Haustellum brandaris (also Murex brandaris or Bolinus brandaris). See Related Link below.
What was the purple dye that the Phoenicians used called?
Murex dye :)
What color did snails make for dye by the pheonicians?
The snails made a rich purple dye, which was used for clothing
How did the Phoenicians make purple dye?
The Phoenicians discovered that crushed shellfish( the specific shellfish is the murex) oozed a fabulous wine-colored goop. Cloth soaked in this substance turned shades ranging from deep pink to rich purple. Royalty soon chose purple as their favorite hue, so every king and queen needed purple dye!
What ingredient made purple dye in Roman times?
Costly and labor-intensive dyes Tyrian purple (or royal purple) and Tekhelet were historically made by the ancient Phoenicians using mucous from the hypobranchial gland of two species commonly referred to as "murex", Murex brandaris and Murex trunculus, which are the older names for Haustellum brandaris and the Hexaplex trunculus.This dye was used in royal robes, other kinds of special ceremonial or ritual garments, or garments indicating high rank. It featured prominently in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, the clothing of the High Priest (or Kohen Gadol) officiating there; it is sometimes still used by Jews today in the ritual fringes (tzitzit) on four-cornered garments.--from Wikipedia (subject: murex)
What is the weight of 4 racing snails?
There are different types of snails that could be used for racing. The largest snails often get used and weigh between 1 to 2 pounds at most.
What do snails used there eyes for?
To see.
What are land snails used for?
we eat them as FOOD
Can goldfish live with snails?
I used to have snails with my goldfish and they got along swimmingly!
