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Turbo cidaris

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Kingdom
  
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Trochoidea

Scientific name
  
Turbo cidaris

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Turbo gruneri, Turbo cailletii, Turbo sparverius, Turbo chinensis, Turbo radiatus

Turbo cidaris, common name the crown turban, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae.

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Some authors place the name in the subgenus Turbo (Sarmaticus)

Subspecies
  • Turbo cidaris cidaris Gmelin, 1791
  • Turbo cidaris natalensis (Krauss, 1848) (synonyms: Turbo natalensis Krauss, 1848; Turbo natalensis var. unicolor Turton, 1932)
  • Description

    The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 60 mm. The imperforate, smooth and polished shell has a depressed, heliciform shape. Its color pattern is reddish, brown or yellow, usually flammulated above, variously marked below, with white. The spire is short and contains 5-6 whorls. The upper ones are bicarinate, the last often considerably descending, and rounded. The aperture is circular, oblique, and white within, rounded below. The wide columella is callous, and is excavated at the umbilical region.

    The operculum is slightly concave inside, with six whorls and a subcentral apex. The outer surface is sharply granulate, white, convex, spiral, with a central pit.

    Distribution

    This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique and South Africa. It has also been found off Angola and Indonesia.

    References

    Turbo cidaris Wikipedia