Bolinus brandaris, Purple dye murex : fisheries

Bolinus brandaris   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Purple dye murex

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Bolinus brandaris

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).

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. 130435: Version 2024-2)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 16.2 - 21.6, mean 19.3 (based on 132 cells).
Prior r = 1.01, 95% CL = 0.67 - 1.52, Based on 2 full stock assessments.
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
Climate Vulnerability (Ref. 125649): Very high vulnerability (77 of 100).
Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.
Nutrients :  Calcium = 126 [75, 177] mg/100g; Iron = 4.79 [1.67, 7.92] mg/100g; Protein = 15.9 [14.8, 16.9] %; Omega3 = 0.331 [0.263, 0.400] g/100g; Selenium = 57.8 [48.5, 67.2] μg/100g; VitaminA = 0 μg/100g; Zinc = 1.97 [0.92, 3.02] mg/100g (wet weight); based on nutrient studies.