Snail ID , baby bumblebee?

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Just found this guy in the sock.The striping isn’t like a bumblebee. Shape isn’t exactly like one either. It doesn’t let me change the title either. I don’t think it’s a bumble.
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TBS live rock. As of now he’s in a bowl until ID.
 
While it looks like a bumblebee to my untrained eyes, perhaps a small nassarius or little nerite snail?
 
It was a heavy textured shell with stripes, long snout and I thought I also saw the eyes on two other smaller things that stuck out from the body. Not like any of my bumblebee snails. I also have 3 cerinths but not like those either. Define not my trochius, when in doubt take it out.
 
Something from the Nassariidae family, which includes both whelks and nassarius. I think this is likely a whelk. Couldn't be a bumblebee snail since those are endemic to the North Pacific.
 

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