| Turris babylonia | |
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| a shell of Turris babylonia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Subfamily: | Turrinae |
| Genus: | Turris |
| Species: | T. babylonia |
| Binomial name | |
| Turris babylonia (Linne, 1758) |
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Turris babylonia, common name: the Babylon turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
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The size of an adultshell varies between 63 mm and 100 mm.
The shell shows somewhat angular whorls, caused by the greater prominence of one of the revolving ribs. Its sculpture shows large revolving ribs, with intermediate raised lines. The color of the shell is whitish, with large dark brown or nearly black spots upon the ribs. [2]
This species is distributed in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Timor; in the Indian Ocean along Mauritius.