Turbo regenfusii

Turbo regenfusii, common name the great green turban, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Turbo regenfusii
Shell of Turbo regenfusii (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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. regenfusii
Binomial name
Turbo regenfusii
Deshayes, 1843
Synonyms
  • Turbo imperialis regenfusii Deshayes, 1843 (uncertain synonymy)

This is a species inquirenda and is also considered a synonym of Turbo (Lunatica) marmoratus Linnaeus, C., 1758

Description

The length of the shell attains 220 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar; also off the Fiji Islands.

References

  1. Turbo regenfussi Deshayes, 1843. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 October 2012.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany.


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