Hexaplex princeps

Hexaplex princeps is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) princeps
Shell of Hexaplex princeps (Broderip, 1833), and operculum, measuring 106.8 mm in height, collected at low tide on Perlas Island, in Panama.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Hexaplex
Subgenus:	Trunculariopsis
Species:	H. princeps
Trinomial name
Hexaplex (Trunculariopsis) princeps (Broderip, 1833)
Synonyms[1]
Murex nitidus Broderip, 1833 Murex princeps Broderip, 1833