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Turbinella pyrum
Turbinella pyrum
,
common names
the
chank shell
,
sacred chank
or
chank
, also known as the
divine conch
, sometimes referred to simply as a
conch
, is a
species
of very large
sea snail
with a
gill
and an
operculum
, a
marine
gastropod
mollusk
in the
family
Turbinellidae
. This species occurs in the
Indian Ocean
.
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