title: Timbellus phaneus
text: # 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.
  
  ## 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.
  
  