title: Timbellus phyllopterus
text: # Timbellus phyllopterus
  
  Timbellus phyllopterus, common name : the leafy winged murex, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
  
  ## Description
  
  The size of an adult shell varies between 50 mm and 100 mm.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species is distributed along the Lesser Antilles and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Sourced primarily by divers in Guadeloupe and Martinique, but presumably also to be found at Dominica which lies between those two French islands.
  
  