Purpura patens Hombron & Jacquinot, 1854 Paratrophon patens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

[1] The length of the shell attains 20.8 mm.

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand

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