Turbo smithi

Turbo smithi, common name the miniature turban, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.^[1][2]

Turbo smithi
Apertural view of a shell of Turbo smithi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Turbo
Species:	T. smithi
Binomial name
Turbo smithi G.B. Sowerby III, 1886
Synonyms[1]
Turbo aurantius Kiener, 1847 Turbo fortispiralis Kreipl & Alf, 2003 Turbo necnivosus Iredale, 1929 Turbo parvulus Philippi, 1849

Description

The size of the shell attains 24 mm. The imperforate shell has an ovate-conic shape. Its color pattern is yellowish brown, or yellow clouded with orange-brown. The elevated spire is acute. The five whorls are sloping above, convex, longitudinally irregularly striate, and spirally costate. The costae are rugose, irregular, slightly elevated, about four on the penultimate whorl, twelve on the body whorl. The aperture is circular. The peristome is simple. The columella is white.^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines.