Deposits of murex shells have been found on the outskirts of Sidon and Tyre to keep the smell away from the living spaces of the city, no doubt, as well as at Phoenician colonies across the Mediterranean, including Carthage.

在西顿和提尔郊区发现了骨螺贝类沉积物，这使气味远离城市活空间，毫无疑，括迦太基在内地中海腓尼基殖民地。

The Phoenicians are probably best known for their production of purple dye; which was accomplished by its extraction from the murex shellfish, a sea creature which pretty much became extinct in the region due to the popularity of the color.

腓尼基人最出名可能是他们紫色染料；这是通过从骨螺贝类中提取紫色染料来完成，骨螺贝类是一种海洋物，由于这种颜色流行，这种海洋物在该地区几乎已经灭绝。

Conseil picked a couple bunches. As for the local fauna, it included thousands of crustaceans of every type: lobsters, hermit crabs, prawns, mysid shrimps, daddy longlegs, rock crabs, and a prodigious number of seashells, such as cowries, murex snails, and limpets.

至于动物，那就是各种各样甲壳类、龙虾、大盘蟹、长手蟹、苗虾、长脚虾、加拉蟹，以及数不清大量蚌蛤、磁贝、岩贝、编笠贝。