Systematic Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Buccinidae
Genus: Babylonia
Species: Babylonia areolata (Lamarck, 1807)
Common name: Babylon shell
Chinese name: 花螺

Characteristic
Features

Shell relatively thin, ovate, light. Spire tall, apex pointed, whorls rounded. Suture channelled. Edge rounded at shoulder. Wide umbilicus. Thin inner lip. Spiral bands of rectangular brown patches on white.

Occurring to 10 m deep, sandy bottom.

~100 mm (body length)

Indo-Pacific (South East Asia)