#4832 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Wavy Turban
Megastraea undosa
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
📍 San Diego County, CA, USA
📍 La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA
📍 Forrest Bluff, Encinitas, CA, US
📍 Imperial Beach, CA, USA
📍 San Diego, CA, USA
📍 Balboa Island, Newport Beach, CA 92662, USA
📍 San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA, USA
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Shellnut · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © H. Zell · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © docprt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. San Diego County, CA, USA:© Robin Gwen Agarwal · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA:© Siobhan O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Forrest Bluff, Encinitas, CA, US:© Susan J. Hewitt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Imperial Beach, CA, USA:© ladyapplekiwipie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. San Diego, CA, USA:© Madeleine Claire · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Balboa Island, Newport Beach, CA 92662, USA:© alanarama3 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. San Pedro, Los Angeles, CA, USA:© Kat Halsey · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Megastraea undosa , common name the wavy turban snail , is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. This species is native to the coast of California.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,930 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by William Wood in 1828 (198 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Wavy Turban
- scientific name
- Megastraea undosa
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Trochida
- family
- Turbinidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 7,930
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1828 by William Wood
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 121180, Wikidata Q3137567, GBIF 2293185, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.