''Babylonia spirata'', common name the Spiral Babylon, is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of sea snail, a marine gastropod

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, in the

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Babyloniidae Babyloniidae is a taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks unassigned within the superfamily Neogastropoda. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Babyloniidae Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971. Accessed through: World R ...

.MolluscaBase (2018). ''Babylonia spirata'' (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456742 on 2019-01-12 It is the type species of the genus ''Babylonia''.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. ''Babylonia'' Schlüter, 1838. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456368 on 2021-09-20 ''Babylonia spirata'' is similar in appearance to '' B. zeylanica'', but the whorl of ''B. spirata'' has a raised shoulder resulting in a sort of channel around the spire.

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spirata Gastropods described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Babyloniidae-stub