title: Turricula thurstoni
text: # Turricula thurstoni
  
  Turricula thurstoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Clavatulidae.
  
  ## Description
  
  The length of the shell attains 40 mm, its diameter 13 mm.
  
  The white shell has a fusiform shape. It contains 10 whorls.
  
  The shell resembles Turricula javana. The nodules at the periphery are rather similar, but the fine sutural plicae are wanting in P. javana.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species occurs off India and Sri Lanka.
  
  