Turbo acutangulus

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Turbo acutangulus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. acutangulus
Binomial name
Turbo acutangulus
Linnaeus, 1758 [1]

Turbo acutangulus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. [2]

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Description

The shell is turreted with one acute transverse keel in the middle of each whorl. The colour pattern is pale horn or greyish and somewhat transparent. It has about 15 transversely striated whorls with a sharp keel in the middle and a smaller one at the base of each. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Gulf of Bengal.

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