Turbo cernicus

Turbo cernicus
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Turbo cernicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:	Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Turbo (gastropod)
Species:	T. cernicus
Binomial name
Turbo cernicus G.B. Sowerby III, 1886
Synonyms
Turbo (Marmarostoma) cernicus Sowerby, G.B. III, 1886

Turbo cernicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.^[1][2]

G.W. Tryon was of the opinion that this species is a synonym of Turbo (Turbo) japonicus Reeve, L.A., 1848, which in turn is a synonym of Turbo cornutus Lightfoot, 1786 ^[3]

Description

The solid, subventricose, imperforate shell has an ovate conic shape. Its color pattern is yellowish, longitudinally flammulate with reddish-brown. The acute spire is elevated. The convex whorls are sloping above, minutely obliquely striate, encircled by wide flattened ribs, alternating with smaller. The body whorl is obtusely angulated above, lightly depressed above the angle, and scarcely canaliculate. The aperture is circular. The acute lip is scalloped. The thick columella is convex, slightly arcuate and slightly produced at base, and longitudinally plicated.

The operculum is very convex outside. It is green, suffused with bright reddish-brown, and conspicuously granulose. ^[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and Réunion; also in the Central Pacific.

Notes

Additional information regarding this species:^[1]

• Taxonomic status: Some authors place the name in the subgenus Turbo (Marmarostoma)

References

External links

• To Encyclopedia of Life
• To World Register of Marine Species