Turbo histrio
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| Turbo histrio | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Turbo histrio | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Turbo |
| Species: | T. histrio |
| Binomial name | |
| Turbo histrio Reeve, 1848 | |
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Turbo histrio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1][2]
The height of the shell attains 45 mm, its diameter 40 mm. The shell is somewhat globose, swollen, and imperforated. The sutures of the spire are excavately channelled and spirally ridged. These ridges are very finely laminiferous and squamate. The scales are strong and erect. The color of the shell is snowy-white, broadly rayed with orange-rust color. The interior is silvered.[3]
Distribution
This marine species was found in the Indian Ocean off the Amirante Islands