Hi Paul

It really does look buccinid, but those oblique ribs are strange...
noncollabral ribs (ie crossing the growthlines) are rare and largely
restricted to Cancellariidae & "turrids" and perhaps Aporrhaidae.

It COULD be a turrid, but I can't think of one like this off the top
of my head. There is nothing like it in Powell's 1966 "The Molluscan
Families Speightiidae and Turridae".

I place my money on Buccinidae. It looks in outline and large
protoconch very much like a Cominella, but the fasciole is not
well-defined and the ribs are too oblique and are noncollabral.

What does the operculum look like?

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