Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Superfamily Trochoidea Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Clade Vetigastropoda Family Turbinidae | |
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Turbo moluccensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
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Description
The size of the shell attains 54 mm. The umbilicate shell has a globose-conoid shape. Its color pattern is green, rufous marbled. The whorls are rounded. The upper whorls are reddish, spirally lirate, the line unequal, slightly elevated, separated by narrow obsoletely crenulated interstices. The aperture is subcircular. The lip is within green-margined and obsoletely crenulated.
Distribution
This marine species is found off Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
References
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