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Smooth Moon Turban
Lunella cinerea
Lunella cinerea, common name the smooth moon turban, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
From the article Lunella cinerea on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm. The solid, umbilicate shell has a depressed-globose shape with a strong spiral sculpture. The spire is obtuse. The suture is slightly undulating. The five whorls are spirally lirate, and with lirulae in the interstices.
Range & habitat
This species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific, off the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands, the Philippines, in the Red Sea, and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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 742736.