21. Alama has won two Murex d'Or Awards and several other awards during his career. 22. This is a subfamily within the very large family Muricidae, the murex or rock snails. 23. This subfamily contains the true " Murex ", and many other closely related genera. 24. "Murex " spp . snails have a bromoperoxidase used to produce Tyrian purple dye. 25. Mr . Williams left International Murex which was eventually sold to Abbot Laboratories for $ 234 million. 26. Shares of International Murex rose 13 / 16, or 23 percent, to 4 5 / 16. 27. It is certainly easier to see a murex shell than to understand one solely from the defining words. 28. The purple dye extracted from snails of the Murex and related species was highly prized in ancient times. 29. The most primitive varix as in ( " Murex " ) and many of the Ranellidae. 30. Monterosato, 1872, leaving the status of " Murex ( Pseudomurex ) aedonius " unchanged.