Wanted: Murex

[Floriana]

I am looking for a certain kind of Murex snail, Murex Trunculus or similar variations such as murex brandaris, or hexaplex trunculus, or haustellum brandaris, bolinus brandaris...
scientific names aside it is known as the purple dye snail native to the mediterranean but also found in the caribbean.

i know this is crazy and wierd because no one wants murex snails as they are carnivorous, but does anyone have any ideas or connections concerning where i could find one (or several) alive? the only source i have found so far is the ocean. there is absolutely no market for them and the one and only other thread about murex' (started a couple years ago) yeilded no results.. (other than me looking like an absolute crazy to 'Tom the caribbean guy' who thinks im either mentally ill or joking one haha!) but im not!...?...!

Identifying characteristics:
has an operculum (nifty front door of shell)
some have purple stripes on the inside of the shell
decorative/dangerous looking shell, spikes and such
around 6-9 cm in length (shell)
*produces a small amount of yellow mucus which turns from green to indigo to purple when exposed to oxygen*
carnivorous (hence no one wanting them in their reefs..)

any information would be tremendously helpful- (do they go by another name now, are they extinct, *do you think you might have possible seen one somewhere?* **for sale?**)

[Clownfish518]

They have been reclassified as Hexaplex trunculus I believe. I don't know many people collecting in the Mediterranean but that is where they come from.

Sorry I couldn't be any more help