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Common pacific vase
Vasum turbinellus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 211103, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Common pacific vase
- Scientific
- Vasum turbinellus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Sea snails
- Family
- Vasidae (vase snails)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 10 cm (shell length)
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The common Pacific vase is a heavy shell with blunt, knobby spines, white and black, with a white opening. It lives on reef flats and rocky shores in shallow water.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=26); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=12, 8 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Vasum-turbinellus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211103
- inaturalist.org /taxa/487364
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Vasum_turbinellus_01.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.