Bolma

Bolma
A live individual of Bolma rugosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Subfamily: Turbininae
Genus: Bolma
Risso, 1826[1]
Type species
Bolma rugosa Linnaeus, C., 1767
Synonyms
  • Calcar Montfort, 1810
  • Tylastralium Sacco, 1896
  • Ormastralium Sacco, 1896
  • Oobolma Sacco, 1896
  • Pseudastralium Schepman, 1908
  • Incilaster Finlay, 1926
  • Galeoastraea Habe, 1958
  • Hirasazaea Habe, 1958

Bolma is a genus of medium to large sea snails with a calcareous operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are included within the genus Bolma : [2]

Species brought into synonymy 

The following species are also included in the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database [4]

References

  1. ^ Risso A. (1826). H.N. Europe 4: 117.
  2. ^ WoRMS : Bolma; accessed : 1 February 2011
  3. ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. ^ OBIS : Bolma

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