Placement in family from Richmond, 1997. [details]

Shell up to 6 cm long. The rounded shell is slightly glossy and patterned with brown. The animal is flesy, mottled ... [details]

A squat shell with thick varices and a small, round aperture, up to 5 cm. Anal canal forms a long projecting spout ... [details]

Strawberry Shell Distinctive, small, robust shell with granulated surface, up to 2 cm. Colour brick-red with a ... [details]

Small, squat heavy shell, up to 4 cm, with slight nodules on shoulders of whorls. Colour light, mottled ... [details]

Habitat: rocky shores (Ruwa, 1984). Easily recognisable small, squat shell, up to 5 cm, with a rounded, short ... [details]

Thick shell, up to 5 cm, with low spire and 5 rows of small granules at anterior end of whorl. Colour red with a ... [details]

Thick, heavy shell with flat spire, up to 13 cm. Colour cream with 2-3 axial bands of yellow or orange bands dotted ... [details]

Thick shell, up to 5 cm, with moderate spire and prominent nodules on shoulders of whorls. Colour light yellow to ... [details]

A thick shell, up to 9 cm, with slightly raised spire and nodular shoulders of whorls. Overall colour pattern pale ... [details]

A small, solid cone up to 5 cm, with flattish spire, rounded shoulders and several spiral ridges around base of ... [details]

Highly Dangerous - live specimens should be handled with extreme caution. Shell with moderately high spire and ... [details]

Heavy shell with rugged, knobbly exterior and pointed apex, up to 10 cm. Whorls with two prominent varices, outer ... [details]

A thick, solid, nodular shell, up to 8 cm, with a long, upwardly bent siphonal canal. Exterior dirty grey with ... [details]

A long, solid, cylindrical shell, up to 13 cm, with a straight, narrow aperture. Dorsally light honey-coloured ... [details]

A conspicuous, solid, thick, heavy shell, up to 17 cm, with a narrow aperture. Dorsally reddish with 3 or 4 broad ... [details]

A large bulky sea hare, notable by its trancated, flattened and sloping posterior, up to 20 cm long. Body colour is ... [details]

Habitat: rocky shores Thick, globose shell, up to 5 cm, with low spire, large body whorl and flat base. Colour ... [details]

Habitat: rocky shores [details]

A moderately high-spired shell, up to 4 cm. Body whorl with five spiral rows of prominent tubercles separately by ... [details]

Description as for family with conspicuous vertical scales, up to 5 cm. Colour white. Habitat: shallow substrates. ... [details]

Fin-shaped shell with coarse ribs, up to 2 cm. Colour reddish-brown or white. Habitat: shallow sublittoral on ... [details]

Distinctive shell, up to 20 cm, with six projections (including the long siphonal canal). Colour white, with brown ... [details]

High spired shell, up to 7 cm, with angular nodules on spiral ridges; lip with fine teeth and ridges. Colour cream ... [details]

Habitat: Rocky cliffs [details]

Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details]

Shell up to 8 cm, with tall spire, moderately wide siphonal canal and the typical posterior notch in the outer lip. ... [details]

Shell up to 4 cm, with conspicuous flattened, cup-like scales interspersed by small, regular rows of nodules. ... [details]

The shell is long and narrow, moderately raised, with prominent oval opening from the centre to the anterior edge, ... [details]

Similar to Tonna with thicker shells, narrower aperture and toothed outer lip, up to 6 cm. Habitat: deep water. ... [details]

Thick, heavy shell, up to 3 cm, with moderate sutures between rounded whorls. Prominent, large columellar tooth and ... [details]

Habitat: rocky shores A compact, heavy shell, up to 2 cm, covered in large, rounded, brown-black nodules on white ... [details]

Solid, yellowish shell, up to 15 cm, with a long siphonal canal and numerous long, slightly curved spines. ... [details]

Compact shell, up to 2cm, surface sculpture a distinctive fine network of evenly-spaced nodules. Columella narrow ... [details]

Habitat: muddy shore Thick shells, up to 3 cm, with transverse rows of large nodules (most prominent on shoulders ... [details]

Habitat: muddy shore Up to 3 cm, similar to N. arcularia plicatus, but with more elongated spire, a smooth surface ... [details]

Habitat: rocky cliffs, sometimes mangrove trees (Ruwa, 1984). Up to 4 cm, shell surface smooth or with slight ... [details]

Habitat: rocky cliffs (Ruwa, 1984). Globose shell, up to 3 cm, with well-marked ridges. Columella with three ... [details]

Habitat: rocky cliffs (Ruwa, 1984). Up to 5 cm, surface texture of broad, ridged, spiral cords. Thick, granulose ... [details]

Habitat: rocky cliffs (Ruwa, 1984 <109>). Up to 4 cm, with radial ridges on the shell surface; columella with three teeth. ... [details]

Robust, domed shell, up to 2cm long, with pointed apex and fine radiating ridges. Grey-white exterior, buff-grey ... [details]

Moderately large, globular shell with a short, pointed spire, up to 12 cm. Outer lip thickened and denticulate ... [details]

Up to 2 cm, higher and more acute spire than P. nivosa. Colour variable, often pale with reddish-brown and white ... [details]

Similar to P. trapezium, but with a much taller spire and longer siphonal canal; up to 15 cm. Colour light to dark ... [details]

Habitat: attached to rocks among algae. Tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details]

Parasitic in sea star Linckia guildingi. [details]

Shell triangular, up to 8 cm. Resembling those of Conus species but with heavy axial striae and a thick, incurved ... [details]

As T. nebulosa. Up to 14 cm, with prominent row of small, grooved nodules along the top margin of whorls. Colour ... [details]

Shell as T. crenulata, up to 13 cm, but lacking distinct grooves and nodules. Colour characteristically orange to ... [details]

A large, thin, globose shell, up to 12 cm, with short spire and deep suture. Pale brown with lighter and darker ... [details]

As T. canaliculata, but shell less inflated, columella much reduced, up to 15 cm. Colour pale to dark brown, ... [details]

Small, ovate to globular shell, up to 1 cm, with fine dorsal ribs leaving a longitudinal groove at its centre. ... [details]

Silver-mouthed Turban up to 8 cm, main body whorl with 20 distinct spiral ribs, mostly flat-topped, some with ... [details]

Distinctive shell, up to 18 cm, bearing blunt tubercles, especially strong on shoulders. Colour greyish-green. ... [details]

As T. argyrostomus, but no fluted scales and usually green in colour. (Richmond, 1997). [details]

Solid, rounded shells, up to 2 cm wide, similar to Oxystele (above) but more flattened and with a glossy, highly ... [details]

With strongly ribbed surface, up to 2 cm wide. Habitat: under stones in lower eulittoral and sublittoral. ... [details]

Mangrove forests and rocky cliffs. [details]

rocky shores [details]

Habitat: muddy shore (Ruwa, 1984 <109>). Up to 3 cm. Grey to greyish-brown, sometimes streaked with pale grey or ... [details]

rocky shores [details]

Cited as Ctenocardia victor (Angas, 1872) by Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988) [details]

Publication date 1830 in Dautzenberg, 1929 [details]

Year of description: 1832 in Dautzenberg, 1929 [details]

Described in 1790 according to Dautzenberg, 1929. [details]

Acteon is placed in family Acteonidae by Sheppard (1984) and Harasewych (1997), which is synonym with Pupidae ... [details]

Also Lampadopsis rhodostoma in Vine, 1986 . [details]

Subgenus Ctena in Vine, 1986 . [details]

Subgenus: (Sanhaliotis) in Vine (1986). [details]

subgenus Chrysame (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]

subgenus Chrysame (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]

subgenus Chrysame (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]

subgenus Chrysame (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]

subgenus Chrysame (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]

Possibly belongs to Turritellidae or Trichotropidae (not clear from <112>) [details]

Subgenus Infundibulum Dautzenberg, 1923 [details]

Described by Lamarck according to Dautzenberg, 1923 [details]

Actaeon flammeus in Vine, 1986 and Odhner, 1919. [details]

Cerithium alveolum in <70>. [details]

C. tectum sinense (Chemniz) in Spry, 1961. [details]

C. hebraeus in Kalk (1958). [details]

C. ratus in Vine, 1986 . [details]

C. labiosus in Spry 1964 [details]

C. cicerula in Vine 1986  [details]

C. staphylea in Vine 1986  [details]

spelled D. auricularis in Vine,1986 . [details]

D. ricina in Spry 1961 and Ruwa 1984 [details]

H. conica in Taylor (1973). [details]

N. concinna in Michel, 1988 <110> [details]

O. tigerina in Dautzenberg, 1923 [details]

Genus name misspelled in <112> (only with this species, not in index). [details]

Quidnapagus in <139> [details]

Misspelled in <112> [details]

T. asperrina in Vine, 1986 . [details]

T. babylonica in Michel 1988 [details]

T. columellaris in Vine, 1986 . [details]

V. turbinellum in Odhner (1919). [details]

V. dehayesi in Michel 1988. Also subgenus Costellaria in Vine, 1986 . [details]

V. exasperata in Vine, 1989. In subgenus Costellaria in Vine, 1989 and Odhner, 1919. [details]