Buccinum Senticosum (Linnaeus) Small 148×320 Medium 296×640 Large 474×1024 Download Tiff Original 1111×2400 | (828.0 KB) Description "The Purpuras have a classical name and history, having furnished the Greeks and Romans with the brilliant purple coloring matter which was reserved for the mantles of patricians and princes." Keywords cephalous mollusca, Mollis, mollusks, snail sea shell Galleries Snails and Slugs Source: Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)
