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Family: Turbinidae Turban shells (See list of species below)

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198 species with fin ray counts including ? spines in dorsal and ? in anal fins (see list below)

No picture found Adeuomphalus ammoniformis []	No picture found Adeuomphalus collinsi []	No picture found Adeuomphalus elegans []
No picture found Adeuomphalus trochanter []	No picture found Adeuomphalus xerente []	No picture found Angaria formosa []
Angaria nodosa []	No picture found Angaria sphaerula []	No picture found Arene bairdii [Warty cyclostreme]
No picture found Arene brasiliana []	Arene briareus [Briar cyclostreme]	Arene cruentata [Star cyclostreme]
Arene ferruginosa []	Arene miniata []	No picture found Arene riisei []
Arene tricarinata [Gem cyclostreme]	No picture found Arene variabilis [Variable cyclostreme]	Arene venusta []
No picture found Arene venustula [Graceful cyclostreme]	No picture found Astraea heliotropium [Circular saw shell]	No picture found Astralium brevispina []
Astralium calcar [Spurred turban]	No picture found Astralium confragosum []	No picture found Astralium haemotragum []
No picture found Astralium lapillus []	No picture found Astralium latispina []	No picture found Astralium milloni []
No picture found Astralium phoebium [Longspine starsnail]	No picture found Astralium provisorium []	Astralium rhodostomum [Rosemouth starshell]
No picture found Astralium saturnum []	No picture found Astralium tentorium []	No picture found Astrallum rhodostoma []
No picture found Bellastraea aurea []	No picture found Bolma bartschi []	No picture found Bolma erectospinosa []
Bolma girgylla [Girgyllus star shell]	No picture found Bolma guttata []	No picture found Bolma henica []
No picture found Bolma kermadecensis []	No picture found Bolma maestratii []	No picture found Bolma microconcha []
No picture found Bolma midwayensis []	No picture found Bolma minutiradiosa []	No picture found Bolma persica []
No picture found Bolma recens []	No picture found Bolma rugosa [Rough turbo]	No picture found Bolma sunderlandi []
No picture found Bolma tamikoana []	No picture found Callogaza watsoni []	No picture found Cirsonella extrema []
No picture found Cookia sulcata [Cooks turban shell]	No picture found Cyclostrema amabile []	No picture found Cyclostrema archeri []
No picture found Cyclostrema cancellatum [Cancellate cyclostreme]	No picture found Cyclostrema carinatum []	No picture found Cyclostrema charmophron []
No picture found Cyclostrema crassiolatum []	No picture found Cyclostrema dunkeri []	No picture found Cyclostrema eumares []
No picture found Cyclostrema exiguum []	No picture found Cyclostrema huesonicum [Key West cyclostreme]	No picture found Cyclostrema ocrinium []
No picture found Cyclostrema prominulum []	No picture found Cyclostrema supremum []	No picture found Cyclostrema tortuganum [Tortugas cyclostreme]
No picture found Didianema pauli []	No picture found Eulithidium adamsi []	No picture found Eulithidium affine [Checkered pheasant]
No picture found Eulithidium bellum [Shouldered pheasant]	No picture found Eulithidium pterocladicum [Rhodophyte pheasant]	No picture found Eulithidium tessellatum []
No picture found Eulithidium thalassicola [Turtlegrass pheasant]	No picture found Gabrielona roni []	No picture found Gabrielona sulcifera []
No picture found Gaza compta []	No picture found Gaza olivacea []	No picture found Granigyra limata []
No picture found Granigyra oblatogyra []	No picture found Granigyra radiata []	No picture found Granigyra spinulosa []
No picture found Guildfordia aculeata []	No picture found Guildfordia superba []	No picture found Guildfordia tagaroae []
Guildfordia triumphans [Victorious turban]	Guildfordia yoka []	No picture found Haplocochlias cubensis []
No picture found Haplocochlias moolenbeeki []	No picture found Haplocochlias nunezi []	No picture found Haplocochlias ortizi []
No picture found Haplocochlias risoneideneryae []	No picture found Haplocochlias williami []	No picture found Leptothyra benthicola []
Leptothyra candida []	No picture found Leptothyra inepta []	No picture found Leptothyra kermadecensis []
No picture found Leptothyra nanina []	No picture found Leptothyra rubricincta []	No picture found Liotia microgrammata []
No picture found Liotina loculosa []	No picture found Liotina peronii []	No picture found Lissospira bushae []
No picture found Lissospira conica []	No picture found Lissospira convexa []	No picture found Lissospira depressa []
No picture found Lissospira rarinota []	No picture found Lissospira valvata []	No picture found Lissotesta impervia []
No picture found Lissotesta liratula []	No picture found Lissotesta notalis []	No picture found Lissotesta unifilosa []
No picture found Lithopoma americanum [American star snail]	No picture found Lithopoma aspinosum []	Lithopoma caelatum [Carved starsnail]
No picture found Lithopoma gibberosa [Red turban]	No picture found Lithopoma tectum [West Indian starsnail]	No picture found Lithopoma tuber [Green starsnail]
No picture found Lodderena bunnelli []	No picture found Lodderena janetmayae []	No picture found Lodderena ornata [Ornate lodderena]
No picture found Lodderena pulchella []	No picture found Lodderena striata []	No picture found Lodderia coatsiana []
No picture found Lodderia novemcarinata []	Lunella cinerea [Smooth moon turban]	Lunella coronata [Coronate moon turban]
No picture found Lunella granulata []	Lunella smaragda [Cat's eye shell]	No picture found Lunella torquata []
No picture found Lunella undulata []	No picture found Margarita bicarinata []	No picture found Margarita magellanica []
No picture found Margarites atlantoides []	No picture found Margarites bairdii []	No picture found Margarites biconicus []
No picture found Margarites coarctatus []	No picture found Margarites dnopherus []	No picture found Margarites euspira []
No picture found Margarites imperialis []	No picture found Margarites kophameli []	No picture found Margarites malouinus []
No picture found Margarites miona []	No picture found Margarites mirabilis []	No picture found Margarites ornatus []
No picture found Margarites sigaretinus []	No picture found Megastraea turbanica [Rockpile turban]	No picture found Megastraea undosa [Wavy turban]
No picture found Moelleria costulata [Ribbed moelleria]	No picture found Moelleriopsis abyssicola []	No picture found Moelleriopsis sincera []
No picture found Moelleriopsis valvatoides []	No picture found Moelleriopsis watsoni []	No picture found Palazzia pankakare []
No picture found Parviturbo granulum []	No picture found Parviturbo tuberculosus []	No picture found Pomaulax gibberosus []
No picture found Pomaulax spiratus [Spirate turban]	No picture found Prisogaster niger []	No picture found Retigyra millipunctata []
No picture found Skenea ferruginea []	No picture found Skenea peterseni []	No picture found Tharsiella globosa []
No picture found Trenchia argentinae []	No picture found Tropidomarga biangulata []	No picture found Turbo angelvaldesi []
Turbo argyrostomus [Silvermouth turban]	No picture found Turbo aurantius []	Turbo bruneus [Brown Pacific turban]
No picture found Turbo cailletii [Filose turban]	Turbo canaliculatus [Channelled turban]	Turbo castanea [Chestnut turban]
Turbo chrysostomus [Goldmouth turban]	No picture found Turbo chrysostonus []	Turbo cornutus [Horned turban]
Turbo crassus [Crass turban]	No picture found Turbo fortispiralis []	No picture found Turbo haraldi []
No picture found Turbo heisei []	No picture found Turbo heterocheilus []	No picture found Turbo intercostalis [Ribbed turban snail]
No picture found Turbo jonathani []	No picture found Turbo jourdani []	No picture found Turbo markusrufi []
Turbo marmoratus [Green turban]	No picture found Turbo militaris []	No picture found Turbo parvulus []
Turbo petholatus [Tapestry turban]	Turbo radiatus [Rayed dwarf-turban]	No picture found Turbo reevei [Reeve's turban]
No picture found Turbo sandwicensis [Hawaiian turban]	No picture found Turbo sarmaticus [Giant periwrinkle]	Turbo setosus [Rough turban]
No picture found Turbo sparverius []	No picture found Turbo squamiger []	No picture found Turbo stenogyrum []
No picture found Turbo tuberculosus [Turbo snail]	No picture found Turbo tursicus []	No picture found Uvanilla buschii [Philippi's star shell]

198 Species of Family Turbinidae
(Turban shells)

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Scientific Name	English Name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)
Adeuomphalus ammoniformis		Mediterranean Sea.
Adeuomphalus collinsi		Western Central Pacific
Adeuomphalus elegans		Southwest Pacific
Adeuomphalus trochanter		Northeast Pacific
Adeuomphalus xerente		Western Atlantic.	0.074 DL
Angaria formosa		Western Central Philippin
Angaria nodosa		Western Pacific
Angaria sphaerula		Western Pacific.
Arene bairdii	Warty cyclostreme	Western Atlantic. Tropic	0.6 DL
Arene brasiliana		Western Atlantic	0.5 DL
Arene briareus	Briar cyclostreme	Tropical to polar areas o	0.9 DL
Arene cruentata	Star cyclostreme	Western Atlantic. Tropic	1.63 DL
Arene ferruginosa		Southeast Pacific
Arene miniata		Western Atlantic	0.25 DL
Arene riisei		Western Atlantic.	0.8 DL
Arene tricarinata	Gem cyclostreme	Western Atlantic and East	0.36 DL
Arene variabilis	Variable cyclostreme	Western Atlantic. Tropica	0.6 DL
Arene venusta		Western Atlantic	0.45 DL
Arene venustula	Graceful cyclostreme	Western Atlantic. Tropica	0.82 DL
Astraea heliotropium	Circular saw shell	Southwest Pacific
Astralium brevispina		Western Atlantic	5 DL
Astralium calcar	Spurred turban	Indo-West Pacific	6 SHL
Astralium confragosum		Eastern Central Pacific
Astralium haemotragum		Western Pacific	2 ShH
Astralium lapillus		Western Central Pacific
Astralium latispina		Western Atlantic.	6 DL
Astralium milloni		Eastern Central Pacific
Astralium phoebium	Longspine starsnail	Western Atlantic.	7.6 DL
Astralium provisorium		Western Central Pacific
Astralium rhodostomum	Rosemouth starshell	Western Pacific.
Astralium saturnum		Western Central Pacific
Astralium tentorium		Eastern Indian Ocean
Astrallum rhodostoma		Western Central Pacific	5 H
Bellastraea aurea		Eastern Indian Ocean
Bolma bartschi		Western Central Pacific
Bolma erectospinosa		Western Central Pacific	2.5 ShH
Bolma girgylla	Girgyllus star shell	Western Pacific.	6 ShH
Bolma guttata		Western Pacific
Bolma henica		Western Central Pacific	3 ShH
Bolma kermadecensis		Southwest Pacific
Bolma maestratii		Southwest Pacific and Eas
Bolma microconcha		Western Central Pacific
Bolma midwayensis		Eastern Central Pacific
Bolma minutiradiosa		Western Central Pacific
Bolma persica		Western Pacific	2.5 ShH
Bolma recens		Southwest Pacific
Bolma rugosa	Rough turbo	Mediterranean Sea.
Bolma sunderlandi		Western Central Atlantic	1.6 DL
Bolma tamikoana		Western Central Pacific
Callogaza watsoni		Western Atlantic.	1.5 DL
Cirsonella extrema		Western Atlantic and Indo	0.32 DL
Cookia sulcata	Cooks turban shell	Southwest Pacific
Cyclostrema amabile		Western Atlantic.	0.62 DL
Cyclostrema archeri		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema cancellatum	Cancellate cyclostreme	Western Atlantic.	1.1 DL
Cyclostrema carinatum		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema charmophron		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema crassiolatum		Southeast Pacific and Ant
Cyclostrema dunkeri		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema eumares		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema exiguum		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema huesonicum	Key West cyclostreme	Western Central Atlantic.	0.45 DL
Cyclostrema ocrinium		Western Indian Ocean.
Cyclostrema prominulum		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema supremum		Western Indian Ocean
Cyclostrema tortuganum	Tortugas cyclostreme	Western Atlantic.	1 DL
Didianema pauli		Western Central Atlantic.	0.17 DL
Eulithidium adamsi		Western Central Atlantic.	0.38 DL
Eulithidium affine	Checkered pheasant	Western Atlantic Ocean.	0.9 TL
Eulithidium bellum	Shouldered pheasant	Western Atlantic.	0.52 DL
Eulithidium pterocladicum	Rhodophyte pheasant	Western Central Atlantic.	0.8 DL
Eulithidium tessellatum		Western Central Atlantic.	0.52 DL
Eulithidium thalassicola	Turtlegrass pheasant	Western Atlantic.	0.71 DL
Gabrielona roni		Western Indian Ocean
Gabrielona sulcifera		Western Atlantic.	0.24 DL
Gaza compta		Western Atlantic.	2.6 DL
Gaza olivacea		Western Atlantic.	4.49 DL
Granigyra limata		Western Atlantic.	0.25 DL
Granigyra oblatogyra		Western Atlantic.	0.25 DL
Granigyra radiata		Western Atlantic.	0.25 DL
Granigyra spinulosa		Western Atlantic.	0.25 DL
Guildfordia aculeata		Western Central Pacific	4.5 ShD
Guildfordia superba		Western Central Pacific
Guildfordia tagaroae		Western Central Pacific
Guildfordia triumphans	Victorious turban	Western Pacific.	7 ShD
Guildfordia yoka		Western Pacific	4.5 ShD
Haplocochlias cubensis		Western Atlantic.	0.3 DL
Haplocochlias moolenbeeki		Western Atlantic.	0.47 DL
Haplocochlias nunezi		Western Atlantic.	0.52 DL
Haplocochlias ortizi		Western Atlantic.	0.3 DL
Haplocochlias risoneideneryae		Western Atlantic.
Haplocochlias williami		Western Atlantic.
Leptothyra benthicola		Southwest Pacific	0.4 SHH
Leptothyra candida		Eastern Central Pacific
Leptothyra inepta		Western Central Pacific
Leptothyra kermadecensis		Southwest Pacific
Leptothyra nanina		Western Central Pacific
Leptothyra rubricincta		Pacific
Liotia microgrammata		Western Atlantic.	0.2 DL
Liotina loculosa		Western Central Pacific
Liotina peronii		Indo-West Pacific
Lissospira bushae		Western Atlantic.	0.33 DL
Lissospira conica		Western Atlantic.	0.2 DL
Lissospira convexa		Western Atlantic.	0.15 DL
Lissospira depressa		Western Atlantic.	0.2 DL
Lissospira rarinota		Western Atlantic.	0.22 DL
Lissospira valvata		Western Atlantic.	0.26 DL
Lissotesta impervia		Western Atlantic.	0.27 DL
Lissotesta liratula		Western Atlantic.	0.11 DL
Lissotesta notalis		Western Atlantic.	0.17 DL
Lissotesta unifilosa		Western Atlantic and Indo	0.2 DL
Lithopoma americanum	American star snail	Western Central Atlantic.	4 NG
Lithopoma aspinosum		Western Atlantic.	4.1 DL
Lithopoma caelatum	Carved starsnail	Western Central Atlantic.	10 DL
Lithopoma gibberosa	Red turban	Eastern Pacific	7.5 SHD
Lithopoma tectum	West Indian starsnail	Western Atlantic.	6 DL
Lithopoma tuber	Green starsnail	Western Central Atlantic	6 DL
Lodderena bunnelli		Western Atlantic.	0.064 DL
Lodderena janetmayae		Western Atlantic.	0.1 DL
Lodderena ornata	Ornate lodderena	Atlantic Ocean and Indo-W	0.08 DL
Lodderena pulchella		Western Atlantic.	0.084 DL
Lodderena striata		Eastern Central Pacific
Lodderia coatsiana		Western Atlantic.	0.225 DL
Lodderia novemcarinata		Western Indian Ocean.
Lunella cinerea	Smooth moon turban	Indo-West Pacific	4 SHL
Lunella coronata	Coronate moon turban	Indo-West Pacific	5.5 SHL
Lunella granulata		Northwest Pacific
Lunella smaragda	Cat's eye shell	Southwest Pacific
Lunella torquata		Eastern Indian Ocean
Lunella undulata		Eastern Indian Ocean
Margarita bicarinata		Western Atlantic.
Margarita magellanica		Western Atlantic.	1.5 DL
Margarites atlantoides		Western Atlantic.	1 DL
Margarites bairdii		Western Atlantic.	0.5 DL
Margarites biconicus		Western Atlantic and Indi	0.8 DL
Margarites coarctatus		Western Atlantic.	0.51 DL
Margarites dnopherus		Western Atlantic.	0.94 DL
Margarites euspira		Atlantic Ocean.	0.7 DL
Margarites imperialis		Western Atlantic.	0.96 DL
Margarites kophameli		Western Atlantic.	0.88 DL
Margarites malouinus		Western Atlantic.	0.35 DL
Margarites miona		Western Atlantic.	0.2 DL
Margarites mirabilis		Western Atlantic.	1.33 DL
Margarites ornatus		Western Atlantic.	0.38 DL
Margarites sigaretinus		Eastern Pacific.	1.2 DL
Megastraea turbanica	Rockpile turban	Eastern Central Pacific
Megastraea undosa	Wavy turban	Eastern Pacific	15 SHD
Moelleria costulata	Ribbed moelleria	Arctic, Northeast Pacific	0.26 DL
Moelleriopsis abyssicola		Western Atlantic.	0.32 DL
Moelleriopsis sincera		Western Atlantic.	0.33 DL
Moelleriopsis valvatoides		Atlantic Ocean.	0.31 DL
Moelleriopsis watsoni		Western Atlantic.
Palazzia pankakare		Western Atlantic.	0.14 DL
Parviturbo granulum		Western Atlantic.	0.1 DL
Parviturbo tuberculosus		Western Atlantic.	0.25 DL
Pomaulax gibberosus		Northeast Pacific
Pomaulax spiratus	Spirate turban	Northeast Atlantic
Prisogaster niger		Southeast Pacific
Retigyra millipunctata		Atlantic Ocean.	0.196 DL
Skenea ferruginea		Atlantic Ocean.	0.171 DL
Skenea peterseni		Western Atlantic.	0.2 DL
Tharsiella globosa		Eastern Pacific.	0.16 DL
Trenchia argentinae		Western Atlantic.	0.35 DL
Tropidomarga biangulata		Western Atlantic.	1.46 DL
Turbo angelvaldesi		Western Central Atlantic	4.56 DL
Turbo argyrostomus	Silvermouth turban	Indo-Pacific.	10 ShH
Turbo aurantius		Western Central Pacific
Turbo bruneus	Brown Pacific turban	Indo-West Pacific	6 ShH
Turbo cailletii	Filose turban	Western Central Atlantic.	3.7 DL
Turbo canaliculatus	Channelled turban	Western Atlantic.	9.8 DL
Turbo castanea	Chestnut turban	Western Atlantic.	5 DL
Turbo chrysostomus	Goldmouth turban	Indo-West Pacific.	8 SHL
Turbo chrysostonus		Western Central Pacific	7 H
Turbo cornutus	Horned turban	Northwest Pacific.	11.21 SHL
Turbo crassus	Crass turban	Western Central Pacific	8.5 SHL
Turbo fortispiralis		Western Central Pacific
Turbo haraldi		Western Atlantic	2.5 DL
Turbo heisei		Western Atlantic.	2.5 DL
Turbo heterocheilus		Western Central Pacific
Turbo intercostalis	Ribbed turban snail	Indo-West Pacific.
Turbo jonathani		Western Indian Ocean
Turbo jourdani		Eastern Indian Ocean
Turbo markusrufi		Western Central Pacific
Turbo marmoratus	Green turban	Indo-Pacific	22 SHL
Turbo militaris		Southwest Pacific
Turbo parvulus		Western Central Pacific
Turbo petholatus	Tapestry turban	Indo-Pacific.	8.5 ShH
Turbo radiatus	Rayed dwarf-turban	Indo-West Pacific.
Turbo reevei	Reeve's turban	Western Pacific	5 ShH
Turbo sandwicensis	Hawaiian turban	Eastern Central Pacific
Turbo sarmaticus	Giant periwrinkle	Southeast Atlantic.	12 SHL
Turbo setosus	Rough turban	Indo-Pacific.	8.5 SHL
Turbo sparverius		Western Central Pacific
Turbo squamiger		Eastern Pacific.
Turbo stenogyrum		Western Central Pacific	2 ShH
Turbo tuberculosus	Turbo snail	Western Central Pacific
Turbo tursicus		Western Central Pacific
Uvanilla buschii	Philippi's star shell	Southeast Pacific

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