Timbellus phaneus

Timbellus phaneus, common name: the phaneus murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Timbellus phaneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Timbellus
Species:	T. phaneus
Binomial name
Timbellus phaneus (Dall, 1889)
Synonyms[1]
Murex (Pteronotus) phaneus Dall, 1889 Murex (Pteronotus) pygmaeus Bush, 1893 Murex pygmaeus Bush, K.J., 1893 Murex tristichus Dall, W.H., 1889 Pterynotus bushae Vokes, 1970 Pterynotus (Pterynotus) bushae Vokes, E.H., 1970 Pterynotus (Pterynotus) havanensis Vokes, E.H., 1970 Pterynotus phaneus (Dall, 1889) Pteropurpura tristica Dall, W.H., 1927

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 7 mm and 35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is found in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea; in the Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to Brazil.