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TURBO. TURBAN . 
B. The pillar-lip flattened, without groove or perfora¬ 
tion, 7 to 15. 
7. Turbo litoreus. Pcrriwiiihle . 
Lister , pi. 585. f. 43— Pennant , pi. 84. f. 1—Zta Costa, 
pi. 6 . f. 1— Donovan, pi. 33. f. 1, 2— Trans, viii. pi.4. 
f. 8 to 11— Dorset Cat . pi. 17* f. 1, and pi. 19. f.2,3 — 
Walker, f. 31. 
Shell thick, strong, somewhat oval, finely pointed: spires 
five or six, flat and hardly raised, and separated hy a fine 
line, more or less strongly striate or grooved circularly, 
sometimes nearly smooth, the first volution very large : 
color chocolate-brown, or various shades of red, brown, or 
yellow, plain or spirally banded with different colors : aper¬ 
ture rounded-oval; the outer-lip with a thin edge, some¬ 
times finely notched; pillar-lip broad, white, polished: 
length an inch or more; breadth not so much. 
The young are extremely variable in their appearance 
and markings, being sometimes conic and pointed, and re¬ 
gularly ribbed transversely, in which state they are gene¬ 
rally found on stones in the mouths of rivers ; sometimes 
they are nearly smooth, with a short obtuse but well de¬ 
fined spire, and the color black, brown, orange, red, white, 
handed, or chequered. 
On all rocky coasts. v. v. 
8 . Turbo jugosus. Ridged Turban. 
Montagu, pi. 20. f. 2— Linn. Trans, viii. pi. 4. f. 7— 
Dorset Cut. pi. 19. f. 1. 
Shell somewhat qval, not much pointed: spires four, 
the first very large, taking in three-fourths of the shell, 
tumid in the middle, and marked with ten or eleven elevated 
circular sharp ridges which reflect a little upwards, the 
middle ones of which are stronger and more distinct: color 
fulvous or dark purple, with the ridges often white or 
greenish-black; inside dark purple or chocolate-brown : 
aperture nearly orbicular; the outer-lip thin and slightly 
notched by the ridges, pillar-lip broad, polished, chocolate- 
color : length three-eighths of an inch ; breadth a quarter 
of an inch. 
it differs from the young of the last species, in the body 
volution tapering a little to both ends, giving the shell a 
rather 
