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==Description==
From the Reeve description:
The shell is fusiformly oblong, thick, soiïd, very rough throughout, transversely conspicuously ridged, tuberculated between the varices ; three-varicose, varices tuberculated with a complicated mass of laminae ; fulvous or reddish brown, columella and interior of the aperture ochraceous yellow, columellar lip slightly wrinkled, edge erected, vividly stained, especially at the upper part, with very black brown ; outer lip strongly toothed, ornamented with three black-brown spots ; canal rather short, compressed, recurved."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=VO5AAAAAcAAJ&lpg=PT41&ots=rEMcx3k-sa&dq=%22apple%20murex%20shell%22&pg=PT41#v=onepage&q=%22apple%20murex%20shell%22&f=false Conchologia iconica: or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, By Lovell Reeve]</ref>
==Distribution==
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