| Tegula fasciata | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Subfamily: | Tegulinae |
| Genus: | Tegula |
| Species: | T. fasciata |
| Binomial name | |
| Tegula fasciata (Born, 1778) |
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Tegula fasciata (known commonly as the Smooth Atlantic Tegula) is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
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T. fasciata is slightly smaller than T. lividomaculata, which is 5⁄8 to 7⁄8 in (16 to 22 mm) high, and somewhat wider than that.[2] Its shell has smooth, rounded, reddish or pale tan to dark brown whorls, usually with irregular, axially distributed splotches of white, and fine spiral lines of alternating reddish and white spots or streaks. A pale band is often present at the periphery of the last whorl.[2]
T. fasciata often lives under rocks at low tide level, and is found throughout southern Florida and the West Indies (Atlantic Ocean).[2]