#4813 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Black Tegula
Tegula funebralis
🐌 Snails, slugs & other molluscs 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © not-so-great-ape · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © BJ Stacey · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 7. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Rebecca Johnson · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Phil Liff-Grieff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 10. © Don Loarie · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The black turban snail or black tegula , scientific name Tegula funebralis , is a species of medium-sized marine sea snail in the family Tegulidae. This Eastern Pacific Ocean species was previously known as Chlorostoma funebralis ....
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.
- 12,682 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Arthur Adams in 1855 (171 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black Tegula
- scientific name
- Tegula funebralis
- class
- Gastropoda
- order
- Trochida
- family
- Tegulidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 12,682
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1855 by Arthur Adams
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 460365, Wikidata Q3137597, GBIF 2292844, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.