Menathais viciani is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.MolluscaBase (2018). Menathais viciani Kovács, 2018 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1115607 on 2019-01-06Kovács Z. (2018). Description of three new species of Muricidae (Neogastropoda) from the Miocene Paratethys. Novapex. 19(1): 29-35.
Distribution This species occurs in Middle Miocene deposits at Letkés, Hungary. It is the first fossil representative of genus Menathais.
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