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Original - This Indian Ocean species is considered to be sacred and is one of the Eight auspicious symbols in Hinduism and Buddhism. The live animal is notable for having gills and an operculum.
Reason
Commons FP giving comprehensive views of a shell. High res and satisfactory image quality imo. Note that there is currently a backlog of a further four Commons FPs by the same creator, also depicting various snail shells.
Articles in which this image appears
Turbinella pyrum
FP category for this image
Animals/Molluscs
Creator
H. Zell

Promoted File:Turbinella pyrum 01.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 17:36, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]