Bellastraea

Bellastraea
Bellastraea squamifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Turbinidae
Genus:Bellastraea
Iredale, 1924
Type species
Bellastraea kesteveni Iredale, 1924
Synonyms[1]

Micrastraea Cotton, 1939

Bellastraea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

The Australian Faunal Directory considers this genus as a synonym of Astralium Link, 1807 [2]

Species

Species within the genus Bellastraea include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Astraea kesteveni T. Iredale, 1924: synonym of Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)
  • Bellastraea kesteveni (Iredale, 1924):[5] synonym of Bellastraea squamifera (Koch, 1844)
  • Bellastraea urvillei Philippi, R.A., 1852: synonym of Astralium tentoriiforme (Jonas, J.H., 1845)

References

  1. 1 2 Bellastraea Iredale, 1924.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 October 2011.
  2. ↑ Astralium, Link, 1807
  3. ↑ Bellastraea aurea (Jonas, 1844).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Bellastraea rutidoloma (Tate, 1893).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Bellastraea kesteveni (Iredale, 1924).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  • Iredale, 1924, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 49(3): 182, 232
  • 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.
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1–82, pls 104-245


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