Southeastern coast of Turkey. Predator and scavenger in the infralittoral, it is often colonized by the exotic Gastrochaenid Cucurbitula cymbium (Spengler, 1783) – see Delongueville & Scaillet: “Illustration de Gastrochaena cymbium Spengler, 1783 en Méditerrranée orientale sur Hexaplex pecchiolianus (d’Ancona, 1871)”, Novapex/Société 6(4), 2005, p.129.
Original taxon: Murex pecchiolianus.
In nets at 20-40m deep, Yumurtalιk, on the northern coast of Iskenderun Körfezi, SE. Turkey. 67mm.
The species, a Pliocene fossil from central Italy and Sicily, has been found alive at the end of the 20th century. Above: Murex pecchiolianus in C. d’Ancona: “Malacologia Pliocenica Italiana” fasc.1, Memorie per servire alla descrizione della carta geologica d’Italia vol. I, Firenze 1871, plate 5. Original picture provided by the Società Italiana di Malacologia.
25m deep, in nets, Yumurtalιk, 58mm.
