Turbinella angulata
Turbinella angulata | |
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Two views of a shell of Turbinella angulata. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Turbinellidae |
Subfamily: | Turbinellinae |
Genus: | Turbinella |
Species: | T. angulata |
Binomial name | |
Turbinella angulata (Lightfoot, 1786) | |
Turbinella angulata, common name the West Indian chank shell, is a species of very large tropical sea snail with a gill and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae.
The name "chank" for the shell of this species is derived from the word shankha, the divine conch or sacred conch, Turbinella pyrum, a closely related species from the Indian Ocean.
Description
The maximum reported shell size is 36 cm.
Distribution
This species is found in the Western Atlantic Ocean from the Florida Keys and the Bahamas south to Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Haiti, and on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.
References
External links
- Two views of a shell with its periostracum intact and the operculum in place
- Two views of a shell without periostracum