turbinella

[Mod. Lat., dim in. from Lat. turbo (q. v.). Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Muricide, with seventy recent species, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. Shell thick, spire short; columella with several transverse folds; operculum claw-shaped. [SHANK-SHELL.] Fo il species, seventy, from the Miocene onward. tur-bin-i-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Latin turbo (gen it, turbin (is); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] 1. Zool .: A family of Holostomatous Gasteropod a, with several genera, feeding on sea-weed, and widely distributed, mostly in tropical and subtropi cal seas. 2. Palæont.: The family is of high antiquity, dat ing back to the Lower Silurian. [TURBO, 2.] known and prized by the Romans, and the fourth satire of Juvenal celebrates the fact that Domitian convoked the Senate to decide how a monster turbot that had been brought to him should be cooked (cf. Mart ., xiii. 81).