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Hawaiian Turbo Snail
Turbo sandwicensis
Turbo sandwicensis, common name the Hawaiian top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
From the article Turbo sandwicensis on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 45 mm. The shell is ovately turbinated, slightly perforated, somewhat tubulous and spirally ridged. The ridges are smooth alternately rather smaller, squamose. The scales are most prominent on the body whorl. The interstices between the ridges are finely imbricately laminated. The body whorl is somewhat angulated at the upper part. The color pattern of the shell is green, marbled and variegated with dark brownish red.
Range & habitat
Turbo sandwicensis lives in shallow coastal waters of the Hawaiian Islands and can be found under rocks at a depth of approximately 60 ft (18 m).
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 448729.