Promurex

Promurex is a subgenus of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.

Extant and extinct species

Species within this subgenus include:

• Murex antelmei <small> Viader, 1938</small>
• Murex protocrassus <small> Houart, 1990</small>
• Murex spinicosta <small> Bronn 1831</small> † (extinct)

Murex spinicosta lived in the Pliocene of Spain and Italy and in the Miocene of Denmark and Germany, from 11.608 to 2.588 Ma.

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