Turbo? Need ID on a snail please

[ben1]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1809010

 

[pagojoe]

It may be a Turbo species, but I think it's not. I believe it is Cittarium pica, a trochid:

http://www.gastropods.com/4/Shell_24.shtml

If so, it will have the thin disc for an operculum rather than a thick operculum made of shell material. They are algae eaters, of course. Although they can grow to almost 150mm, the average adult is from 75 to 100mm. Still a large snail, but two of them should be OK in a tank larger than about 200 liters, I think.

Cheers,



Don

 

[ben1]

This snail has no lid so it is unlikely Cittarium pica, although it is very similar

 

[pagojoe]

It has to have a lid of one sort or another, either a disc or a lozenge-shaped glob of shell material. If you take the snail out of the tank and make it withdraw completely, you will see the operculum.

Cheers,



Don