WoRMS taxon details
Turbo marmoratus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216369
AphiaID: 216369
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Trochoidea (Superfamily) > Turbinidae (Family) > Turbininae (Subfamily) > Turbo (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Turbo Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Turbo cochlus Gmelin, 1791 Turbo olearius Linnaeus, 1758 Turbo undulata Röding, 1798 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details] basis of record: Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mtwapa [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Anthessius isamusi Uyeno & Nagasawa, 2012 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Distinctive shell, up to 18 cm, bearing blunt tubercles, especially strong on shoulders. Colour greyish-green. Large, circular, golden, pearly aperture. Habitat: in crevices on the reef crest and outer slope. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] Taxonomic status: Some authors place the name in the subgenus Turbo (Lunatica) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216369 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Turbo marmoratus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216369 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||||||||
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