| Lophiotoma indica | |
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| Apertural view of Lophiotoma indica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Subfamily: | Turrinae |
| Genus: | Lophiotoma |
| Species: | L. indica |
| Binomial name | |
| Lophiotoma indica (Röding, 1798) |
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Lophiotoma indica, common name the Indian turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
There is one subspecies: Lophiotoma indica queenslandica Olivera, 2004
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The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 90 mm. The fusiform shell is somewhat less ridged and striated and has a long siphonal canal. The shoulder angle is very slight, the central ridge forming a carina. The other revolving ridges are smaller and closer than other species in this genus. The color of the shell is yellowish-brown, sometimes indistinctly marbled or variegated. [2]
This marine species occurs in the Mascarene Basin, along Sri Lanka, in the South China Sea, along Australia and the Fiji Islands.