#4773 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Turbinate Monodont
🇳🇱 Tulbandtolhoren ·Phorcus turbinatus
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 in Europe, not in NL
📍 Avenue du Levant, Le Lavandou, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR
📍 Sant Antoni de Portmany, Balearic Islands, Spain
📍 Granada, Andalucía, Spain
📍 Lagomandra, Ελιά 630 88, Ελλάδα
📍 Uvala Sveti Ivan, 18, HR
📍 Laguna di Grado, Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, IT
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Anton Gjeldum · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Holger Krisp · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © George Manavopoulos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Jacobo Krauel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Avenue du Levant, Le Lavandou, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR:© sauvageon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Sant Antoni de Portmany, Balearic Islands, Spain:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Granada, Andalucía, Spain:© faluke · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Lagomandra, Ελιά 630 88, Ελλάδα:© Παναγιώτης Ραφαηλίδης · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Uvala Sveti Ivan, 18, HR:© simona dv · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Laguna di Grado, Grado, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, IT:© Giovanni Carraro · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Phorcus turbinatus , common name the turbinate monodont , is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
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.
- 4,136 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ignaz von Born in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Turbinate Monodont
- Nederlands
- Tulbandtolhoren
- scientific name
- Phorcus turbinatus
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Trochida
- family
- Trochidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,162
- sightings worldwide
- 4,136
- GBIF records in NL
- 3
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Ignaz von Born
relatives· Trochidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 506745, Wikidata Q7187379, GBIF 7871052, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.