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    Turbinellidae are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Members of this family are predators. Species in this...
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    shell (Turbinella pyrum) and other Turbinella species in the family Turbinellidae. The Triton's trumpet (family Charoniidae) may also be fashioned into...
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    Syrinx aruanus (category Turbinellidae)
    weighing up to 18 kg. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae, and is the only species in the genus Syrinx. This is the largest extant...
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  • Thumbnail for Vasum truncatum
    large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk within the family Turbinellidae. Subspecies Vasum truncatum triangulare (E. A. Smith, 1902) Vasum truncatum...
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    large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk within the family Turbinellidae. The length of the shell varies between 60 mm to 116 mm. The shell resembles...
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    field observations on the diet of Syrinx aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Turbinellidae) the largest living gastropod, in F. E. Wells, D. I. Walker and D. S...
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  • Thumbnail for Vasum crosseanum
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Vasum crosseanum has a large, thick and heavy pyriform shell that reaches...
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    Hystrivasum (category Turbinellidae)
    extinct genus of medium-sized fossil predatory gastropods in the family Turbinellidae. The species in this genus are known from the Pliocene and Pleistocene...
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    field observations on the diet of Syrinx aruanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Turbinellidae) the largest living gastropod. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier...
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  • Vasum intermedium (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. The height of the shell: attains 65 mm. Fossils of this marine species...
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  • Vasum aquitanicum (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Fossils of this marine species have been found in Oligocene of the...
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    Turbinella pyrum (category Turbinellidae)
    with a gill and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. This species occurs in the Indian Ocean. The name "chank" for the shell...
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  • Fulgurofusus nanshaensis (category Turbinellidae)
    species of large sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Fulgurofusus nanshaensis was first located in the South China Sea....
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    Vasum frequens (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Measurements of the shell : 47 mm x 44 mm. Fossils of this marine species...
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    This shell is from a sea snail species Turbinella pyrum in the family Turbinellidae. This species is found living in the Indian Ocean and surrounding seas...
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    Vasum armatum (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. This marine species occurs off French Polynesia The shell is yellowish...
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  • Vasum elongatum (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Measurements of the shell: 42.0 x 21.5 mm. Fossils of this marine species...
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    Vasum tuberculatum (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. The height of the shell: 111 mm, its diameter 86 mm. Fossils of this...
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  • Vasum subpugillare (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Fossils of this marine species have been found in Oligocene strata...
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  • Vasum dominicense (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. The height of the shell: 60.0 mm, its diameter 37.0 mm. Fossils of...
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  • Tudivasum zanzibaricum (category Turbinellidae)
    mollusc in the subfamily Vasinae, the vase shells, within the family Turbinellidae. The shell can reach a length of 40 mm. This species occurs in the Indian...
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  • Histricosceptrum xenismatis (category Turbinellidae)
    species of large sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Histricosceptrum xenismatis (Harasewych, 1983). Retrieved through:...
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    1928 Costellariidae MacDonald, 1860 Ptychatractidae Stimpson, 1865 Turbinellidae Swainson, 1835 Volutomitridae Gray, 1854 Families brought into synonymy...
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  • Ptychatractidae. Kilburn, R. N. 1971. Notes on some deep-water Volutidae, Turbinellidae and Turridae chiefly from off southern Mocambique and Natal, with descriptions...
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  • Vasum cancellatum (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Fossils of this marine species have been found in Oligocene strata...
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    Syrinx (gastropod) (category Turbinellidae)
    with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae. This marine species can be found along the coasts of northern and western...
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  • Vasum gurabicum (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. The height of the shell: 37 mm, its diameter 24 mm. Fossils of this...
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  • Turbinella tuberculata (category Turbinellidae)
    is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. This is a species inquirenda. Turbinella tuberculata (Anton, 1838)...
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    Vasum caestus (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea (Florida, West Indies)...
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  • Vasum pugnus (category Turbinellidae stubs)
    medium to large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae. Measurements of the (incomplete) shell: 71.6 mm x 35.5 mm. Fossilworks:...
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