Sénégal to Angola, Cabo Verde to Galicia; Canarias, Madeira; Azores and lusitanian seamounts to Mediterranean. Predator in the low infralittoral down to the continental shelf and slope. Common in the circalittoral. Original taxon: Murex fusulus.
Trawled off Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 20mm.
« Shell oblong, slightly striated travsersally, and costulate; whorls carinate in their upper part; the keel spinose; labrum internally denticulate; canal rather elongate. » G. Brocchi: Conchiologia fossile subapennina… vol. II, Milano 1814, p.409.
Synonyms: angolensis, pyrrhias, spadae.
35-40m deep, in Alger bay, El Djazaïr, Algeria, 20mm.
Discarded material from fishing boats (100m deep) at Águilas, Murcia, S. Spain. 20mm.
