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Turricula tornata

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Clade
  
Caenogastropoda

Clade
  
Neogastropoda

Scientific name
  
Turricula tornata

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Gastropoda

Clade
  
Hypsogastropoda

Superfamily
  
Conoidea

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Turricula tornata

Similar
  
Turricula javana, Clavatulidae, Turricula, Clavatula, Turrid

Turricula tornata, common name the turned turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.

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Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 60 mm and 75 mm.

The shell is smooth and ivory-like. The lower portion of body whorl shows revolving striae. The upper portion of the whorls are broadly, concavely channeled. The anal sinus is broad and shallow. The siphonal canal is long. The color of the shell is whitish or yellowish, flexuously strigated with light brown.

Distribution

This species has a wide distribution : from the Red Sea to Thailand and the Western Pacific.

References

Turricula tornata Wikipedia