Scaphella junonia

Scaphella junonia, common names the junonia, or Juno's volute,[2] is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

[1] Because of its deepwater habitat, the shell usually only washes up onto beaches after strong storms, or hurricanes.

Scaphella junonia is found throughout Florida to Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.

[6] The shell is cream in color with about 12 spiral rows of somewhat squarish brown dots.

It is however commonly taken (accidentally as bycatch) from deeper water during commercial trawling by shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico.

An exhibit at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum on Sanibel, Florida shows a growth series of this species.