Nassarius-like snail ID

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Could you please help me id this snail? It was caught off the turkish coast of the mediterranean sea. It seems to be a scavanger, they all gathered around a dead molly or meat but they don't seem to eat any algae. They are very inactive and somewhat nocturnal i guess. Sometimes they randomly start moving around all at once ( mating behaviour?), they will come out in at most an hour if they smell meat though.. They have one of those siphon tubes for breathing and also a tubular mouth proboscis thing. The eyes are small,visible under the short antennae. The foot is whitish, but not an imacullate white,not grey either. They do have a "trapdoor" close to their shell. For now i think they may be a morula or nassarius species.( In the photo they're gathered around a bit of shrimp i put in there for them to eat, otherwise they would be hid
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around in the rocks)
 
It looks like a tiger whelk it eats other snails I had one and it was eating my clean up crew
 

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