Turbo tuberculosus
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| Turbo tuberculosus | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Turbo tuberculosus with the operculum in place | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Subfamily: | Turbininae |
| Genus: | Turbo |
| Subgenus: | Marmarostoma |
| Species: | T. tuberculosus |
| Binomial name | |
| Turbo tuberculosus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 | |
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Turbo tuberculosus is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae the turban snails.[1]
Some authors place this species in the subgenus Turbo (Marmarostoma).
Description
The length of the shell varies between 17 mm and 40 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off North & Western Australia; off the Philippines and Tonga.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Turbo tuberculosus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 3 October 2012.
- Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany.
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592.
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