Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Turbinidae | |
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Turbo histrio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
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Description
The height of the shell attains 45 mm, its diameter 40 mm. The shell is somewhat globose, swollen, and imperforated. The sutures of the spire are excavately channelled and spirally ridged. These ridges are very finely laminiferous and squamate. The scales are strong and erect. The colorof the shell is snowy-white, broadly rayed with orange-rust color. The interior is silvered.
Distribution
This marine species was found in the Indian Ocean off the Amirante Islands
References
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