Turbo (mollusc)
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 Turbo marmoratus
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Turbo is a genus of turban snail with round openning and often hard operculum. Turbo shells are favorite shells of purple pincher land hermit crabs. Turbo(batillus) cornutus is an expensive food gastropod in Korea.
[edit] List of species
- Turbo cailletii P. Fischer and Bernardi, 1856
- Turbo canaliculatus Hermann, 1781
- Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791
- Turbo chinensis
- Turbo cornutus (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Turbo fluctuosus Wood, 1828
- Turbo haraldi Robertson, 1957
- Turbo marmoratus Linnaeus, 1758
- Turbo petholatus Linnaeus, 1758
- Turbo sandwicensis Pease, 1861
- Turbo smaragdus Gmelin, 1791
- Turbo Turbosarmaticus
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