Modelia granosa

Modelia granosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Subfamily:	Turbininae
Genus:	Modelia
Species:	M. granosa
Binomial name
Modelia granosa (Martyn, 1784)

Modelia granosa is a medium to large species of sea snail which has a shell with a pearly interior and a calcareous operculum. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. It is only known to occur in New Zealand.

References

• Arthur William Baden Powell (1979). New Zealand mollusca. ISBN 0002169061. 

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