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Large white/off-white gastropod shell. Center of spiral mottled with brown. Underside streaked with brown.

The queen helmet is a large, heavy gastropod shell. They can grow up to 410 mm (16 inches) in length. Despite the species name…

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Large, white shell with faint traces of pink lines on sides. Spiral is a light grayish-purple.

When held with the spiral end up, the opening of the lightning whelk is on the left. This is unlike most other gastropods, where the opening is on the…

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Cream colored and light brown. Large, rounded ridges around shell, alternating with smaller ridges. Tip of spiral dark brown.

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Cream to pale gray with pale purplish-gray splotches. Ridge lines alternate with finer ridges around shell.

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Mottled gray, brown, white, and cream. Brown parallel lines run around shell.

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Brown with cream colored spots. Pale gray line runs length of shell, off-center. Short brown lines border opening on underside.

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Light brown with white patches. Spiral is mostly white. Interior cream with white edge.

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Cream with tan bands on bottom half. Top half very pale purplish-gray.

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Varying shades of brown with cream color. Spiral is white mottled with brown.

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Light brown and white. White band with diagonal brown lines around middle. Bottom edge blue-purple. Interior white and dark purple.
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