Marine Species Traits - Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791

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Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791

AphiaID

528089 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:528089)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Turbo Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Aorotrema erraticum Pilsbry & T. L. McGinty, 1945 · unaccepted

Turbo castanea f. crenulata Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Turbo castanea f. moltkiana Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted

Turbo castaneus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet

Turbo castaneus muricatus Nowell-Usticke, 1959 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Turbo castaneus var. crenulatus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Turbo castaneus versicolor Nowell-Usticke, 1959 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Turbo crenulatus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted

Turbo granulatus Röding, 1798 · unaccepted

Turbo hippocastanum Lamarck, 1822 · unaccepted

Turbo moltkianus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted

Turbo muricatus Nowell-Usticke, 1959 · unaccepted

Turbo versicolor Nowell-Usticke, 1959 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Turbo virens R. A. Philippi, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Forma Turbo castanea f. crenulata Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Forma Turbo castanea f. moltkiana Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791

Environment

marine

Original description

Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomy Some authors place the name in the subgenus Turbo (Marmarostoma)

Taxonomy Some authors place the name in the subgenus Turbo (Marmarostoma) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Turbo castanea Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=528089 on 2025-05-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-10-05 00:15:48Z

created

Rosenberg, Gary

2010-10-18 07:22:14Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2012-05-20 17:14:28Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

original description (of Turbo granulatus Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 88 [details]

original description (of Turbo hippocastanum Lamarck, 1822) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 47 [details]

original description (of Turbo muricatus Nowell-Usticke, 1959) Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls. [details]

original description (of Turbo virens R. A. Philippi, 1849) Philippi, R. A. (1849). Centuria altera testaceorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 5(7): 99-112 [January 1849]; 5(8): 123-128; 5(9): 129-144: 5(10): 145-150 [all March 1849]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292293
page(s): 99 [details]

original description (of Aorotrema erraticum Pilsbry & T. L. McGinty, 1945) Pilsbry, H. A. & McGinty, T. L. (1945). Cyclostrematidae and Vitrinellidae of Florida- I. The Nautilus. 59(1): 1-13, pls 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523490
page(s): 11, pl. 2, fig. 6 [details]

original description (of Turbo crenulatus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3595 [details]

original description (of Turbo moltkianus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3595 [details]

original description (of Turbo castaneus muricatus Nowell-Usticke, 1959) Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls.
page(s): 29 [details]

original description (of Turbo castaneus versicolor Nowell-Usticke, 1959) Nowell-Usticke, G.W. (1959) A Check List of the Marine Shells of St. Croix U. S. Virgin Islands with Random Annotations. G.W. Nowell-Usticke, St. Croix, 90 pp., 4 pls.
page(s): 29 [details]

basis of record Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] Available for editors

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Other

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

additional source Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. [details]

additional source Redfern, C. 2013. Bahamian Seashells: 1161 Species from Abaco, Bahamas. Bahamianseashells.com, Boca Raton, Florida. 501 pp. [details]

additional source 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., available online at http://, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00854.x [details] Available for editors

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additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 60 [details]