Turbo pustulatus

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

Turbo pustulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. pustulatus
Binomial name
Turbo pustulatus
Brocchi, 1821
Synonyms
  • Homalopoma pustulatum (Brocchi, 1821)
  • Turbo (Turbo) pustulatus Helbling, G.S., 1779

This has become a nomen dubium.

Description

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar.

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References

  1. Turbo pustulatus Brocchi, 1821. 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
  • Mienis H.K. (2011) Remarks concerning Turbo pustulatus, Turbo pyropus and Collonia gestroi, with the description of Yaronia: a new genus for a small turbinid species from the Red Sea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Triton [Journal of the Israel Malacological Society] 23: 1–4.


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