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Megastraea turbanica

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is slightly protractive, rounded, and short. It contains rather elevated riblets reaching about halfway forward on the whorl from the suture (17 on the last whorl). These end in or are barely separated from the same number of stout nodules at the periphery, with a marked sulcus separating them from a
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similar row of nodules on the margin of the base. The base contains four somewhat undulated spiral ridges separated by subequal interspaces, except the inner pair which are smaller and closer to each other. The base is imperforate and is swollen at the base of the
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The size of the shell attains 150 mm. The shell is moderately large and rather thin. It is brilliantly pearly inside. It is covered with a reddish-brown periostracum which becomes olivaceous on the base. The form is rather depressed with turgid
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Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998).
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is ample. The surface of the bodyis erased, leaving visible a pearly and white substance. The pearly columella is arcuate with no anterior prominence or tooth. The outer
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is rounded, shelly, with three partly gyrate, very prominent, granose, narrow ribs. The spaces between them are excavated and smooth.
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The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990.
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Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks
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Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104–245.
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Vetigastropoda
Trochida
Trochoidea
Turbinidae
Megastraea
Binomial name
Dall
Synonyms
species
sea snail
gastropod
mollusk
family
Turbinidae
whorls
sculpture
spire
columella
aperture
lip
operculum
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