Turris ambages

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Turris ambages is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.{{WRMS species|435125|Turris ambages Barnard, 1958||5 April 2010}}

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 31 mm

This marine species occurs off KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Mozambique and the Philippines.

Kilburn R.N., Fedosov A.E. & Olivera B.M. (2012) Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 3244: 1-58.
Steyn, D. G.; Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.

[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40862937 Barnard, K. H. (1958). Contributions to the knowledge of South African marine Mollusca. Part I. Gastropoda: Prosobranchiata: Toxoglossa. Annals of the South African Museum. 44(1): 73-163]
[https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA03040798_507 Kilburn, R.N. (1983) Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1. Subfamily Turrinae. Annals of the Natal Museum, 25, 549–585.]