WoRMS taxon details
Turbo argyrostomus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 216371
AphiaID: 216371
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Trochoidea (Superfamily) > Turbinidae (Family) > Turbininae (Subfamily) > Turbo (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Turbo Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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] from synonym: 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. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Turbo argyrostomus argyrostomus Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Turbo argyrostomus perspeciosus (Iredale, 1929) Subspecies Turbo argyrostomus lajonkairii (Deshayes, 1839) accepted as Turbo lajonkairii (Deshayes, 1839) Subspecies Turbo argyrostomus sandwicensis (Pease, 1861) accepted as Turbo sandwicensis (Pease, 1861) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Silver-mouthed Turban up to 8 cm, main body whorl with 20 distinct spiral ribs, mostly flat-topped, some with fluted scales. Colour cream with patches of green and brown, and broken lines of black; apex almost always pink, aperture pearly white. Outer surface of operculum granular, slightly greenish-brown. Habitat: Middle eulittoral uner coral and boulders, Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216371 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Turbo argyrostomus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216371 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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