Turbo castanea, common names chestnut turban, chestnut turban snail-brown and cat eye snail,[2] is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae.

[3] Distribution of Turbo castanea include: Aruba, Belize, Bonaire, Caribbean Sea, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Gulf of Mexico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela.

[4] This is an abundant species that is variable both in color and the prominence of the sculpture.

They are ornamented with numerous unequal spiral granose, spinose or squamose lirae, of which the subsutural and three or four submedian are more prominent.

The typical form is very sharply sculptured, the principal lirae occasionally bearing vaulted scales.