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Tapestry turban snail
Turbo petholatus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 216382, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Tapestry turban snail
- Scientific
- Turbo petholatus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Sea snails
- Maximum size
- Up to about 8.5 cm (length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 0 to 40 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The tapestry turban snail has a smooth, glossy shell with intricate bands of brown, green, yellow and white, and a green, rounded trapdoor (operculum), sold as 'cat's eye'. It lives on shallow reefs and grazes on algae.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=5); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=22, 13 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Turbo-petholatus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216382
- inaturalist.org /taxa/142963
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:AC._Huis_plus_afsluitschijfjes_Mata_Biak_Ned._Nieuw_Guinea_
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.