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Very flat, smooth pearly bottom with small hole, round dull-looking top of shell. Think it's dead--found it bottom up on sandbed and put it up against glass to see if it would attach, but haven't seen any movement so far. Any ideas?

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I'm pretty sure that's the cap of a turbo snail. Could be a different snail cap. The round part is what you see when a snail retreats into its shell
I have a crowned turbo that died about a week or two ago. Could this be a piece that broke off from it? I also have a smooth turbo which is so far alive and working mostly on the glass but was rock grazing last night.
 

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I have a crowned turbo that died about a week or two ago. Could this be a piece that broke off from it? I also have a smooth turbo which is so far alive and working mostly on the glass but was rock grazing last night.


Its hard for me to say what species died but I was guessing turbo by the size.
 

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I'm pretty sure that's the cap of a turbo snail. Could be a different snail cap. The round part is what you see when a snail retreats into its shell
+1 This is called the operculum.
From images of Lunella coronata (crowned turbo) online, the opercula look pretty similar to what OP has photographed:
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+2 it's just the leftovers from a dead snail. They leave behind the shell and the protector piece. Kinda like a shield when u retreat into a hole and hold the shield to cover the hole. Lol.
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+2 it's just the leftovers from a dead snail. They leave behind the shell and the protector piece. Kinda like a shield when u retreat into a hole and hold the shield to cover the hole. Lol.
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So sad!

My crowned turbo struggled quite a lot--amazingly clumsy, whereas his smooth turbo cousin zips around without a problem. Was always righting him.
 

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