How to Identify Turbinidae

Key Identification Features

• Each whorl also features regular, coarsely sculpted rows of fine knobs and folds.
• The outer surface of the operculum is white, very convex, and has indistinct obsolete rugosity.
• The main body whorl has 20 distinct, mostly flat-topped spiral ribs, some of which have fluted scales.
• Two distinct morphs exist: a smooth morph, which only has growth striae near the lips, and a spiny morph, which has two rows of open-fronted spines on the body whorl.

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