''Tudivasum zanzibaricum'',

common name In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrast ...

the Zanzibar tudicula, is a

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of large

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the subfamily

Vasinae Vasinae, common name the vase snails or vase shells, are a taxonomic subfamily of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the family Turbinellidae. MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Vasinae H. Adams & A. Adams, 185 ...

, the vase shells, within the

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Turbinellidae.

Description

The shell can reach a length of 40 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands ...

References

* Harasewych, M.G. (1997). ''The life and malacological contributions of R. Tucker Abbott (1919–1995)''. The Nautilus 110 (2): 55–77

External links

* Turbinellidae Gastropods described in 1958 Taxa named by Robert Tucker Abbott {{Turbinellidae-stub