Menathais viciani

Menathais viciani is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1][2]

Menathais viciani Kovács, 2018. Middle Miocene, Letkés, Hungary

Menathais viciani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Menathais
Species:	†M. viciani
Binomial name
†Menathais viciani Kovács, 2018

Distribution

This species occurs in Middle Miocene deposits at Letkés, Hungary.^[1] It is the first fossil representative of genus Menathais.