Murex lima Gmelin, 1791 Purpura attenuata Reeve, 1846 Nucella lima, common name : the File Dog Winkle, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

[1] This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean from the Arctic to Baja California, Mexico; and along Northern Japan.

The shell size varies between 19 mm and 51 mm.

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