Hawkwing Conch
Distribution: Florida, Texas; West Indies. Size: 40 to 110 mm
Description: Color of splotches chocolate brown, mottled with white, giving a grayish appearance, aperture cream-colored with pinkish interior and whitish on outer portion; shape broadly conic; sculpture of spiral lines on postnuclear whorls; axial sculpture of wavy irregular threads; body whorl with costae that pinch up to form blunt knobs below the suture; aperture flared, forming a winglike extension on upper portion of outer apertural lip; "stromboid notch" distinct, above siphonal canal; parietal wall whitish with 2 to 3 folds of lamellae.
Habitat: In Texas on offshore coral reefs at depths from 18 to 55 m (60 to 180 ft). Depth range 1 to 55 m (3 to 180 ft).