Turbo laminiferus

Turbo laminiferus, common name the crinkly turban, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae.[1]

Turbo laminiferus
Drawing of a shell of Turbo laminiferus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. laminiferus
Binomial name
Turbo laminiferus
Reeve, 1848
Synonyms[1]
  • Turbo foliaceus Rousseau, 1854
  • Turbo folicaeus Philippi, 1847
  • Turbo foliaceus scabrosus Preston, 1914
  • Turbo foliaceus turriformis Preston, 1914
  • Turbo lamellosus Philippi, 1846
  • Turbo scabrosus Preston, 1914
  • Turbo squamosus J.E. Gray, 1847
  • Turbo turbinopsis Lamarck, 1822
  • Turbo turriformis Preston, 1914
  • Turbo (Marmarostoma) squamosus Gray, J.E. in Jukes, 1847

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm. The solid, umbilicate shell has a pointed-ovate shape. Its color pattern is greenish, longitudinally flammulated with black. The conic spire is pointed. The six whorls are very convex, separated by canaliculate sutures. The body whorl has about nine rather separated lirae, the whole surface covered with crowded elevated sibfoliaceus radiating lamellae. The round aperture measures half the length of the shell or less. The peristome is usually nearly free from body whorl above. The columella is excavated at the deep and prominent umbilicus.

The operculum has a subcentral nucleus. Its outer surface is green, granulate, wrinkled on its outer margin, with a radial sulcus marking the limit of the margin of increment.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs from Western Australia to Queensland, Australia; and off Papua New Guinea

References
  1. Turbo lamniferus Reeve, 1848. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 September 2012.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Turbo foliaceus)
  • Iredale, T., 1914. Report on Mollusca collected at the Monte Bello Islands. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1914:665-675
  • Cernohorsky, W.O., 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Pacific Publications, Sydney. 1–352, 68 pls
  • Wilson, B., 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods.. Odyssey Publishing, Kallaroo, WA
  • 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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