Turbo artensis

Turbo artensis
Drawing with two views of a shell of Turbo artensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species: T. artensis
Binomial name
Turbo artensis
Montrouzier, 1860
Synonyms[1]
  • Turbo (Marmarostoma) artensis Montrouzier, 1860
  • Turbo (Senectus) artensis Montrouzier in Souverbie, 1860

Turbo artensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1][2][3]

Description

The height of the shell attains 65 mm, its diameter 60 mm. The shell has an oval or subrhomboidal outline. It is ventricose, solid, imperforate, and covered with a strong olivaceous epidermis. The short spire is acute. The sutures are subcanaliculate. The 5-6 whorls are convex, with spiral lirae which are narrower than their interstices, and number 11-12 on the body whorl. The grooves are closely radiately lamellar striate, with a central riblet. The aperture is ovate, angulate above and below, white within. The flattened columella is wide, effuse at its base.

The castaneous operculum is slightly concave within. It contains three whorls. The nucleus is situated at one-third the distance across the face. Its outer surface is white, convex. Its center is obsoletely granulose, the outer part is obliquely striate. [4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indo-Pacific.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Turbo artensis Montrouzier, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534208 on 2012-09-01
  2. ↑ Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany.
  3. ↑ Herbert D.G. (1996) A critical review of the trochoidean types in the Muséumd'Histoire naturelle, Bordeaux (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, ser. 4, 18 (A, 3-4): 409-445.
  4. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
External identifiers for Turbo artensis
Encyclopedia of Life 4799295
WoRMS 534208
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