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Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Scientific name: Tegula brunnea

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Mollusca → Class Gastropoda → Subclass Vetigastropoda → Order Trochida → Superfamily Trochoidea → Family Tegulidae → Genus Tegula

Common name: Brown Turban Snail
Locations: Eastern Pacific
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesSea Snails

Previously Chlorostoma brunnea.

Tegula brunnea has a closed whorl at the bottom. Promartynia pulligo has an open one.

I may have some of these mixed up with the other species of brown turban snail below.

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Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Note closed whorl at the bottom
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Eating a kelp holdfast
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
With slipper shells
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
Tegula brunnea (Brown Turban Snail)
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