Turbo sandwicensis

Turbo sandwicensis
Apertural view of a shell of Turbo sandwicensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Gastropoda
Clade:Vetigastropoda
Superfamily:Trochoidea
Family:Turbinidae
Genus:Turbo
Species: T. sandwicensis
Binomial name
Turbo sandwicensis
(Pease, 1861)
Synonyms[1]
  • Turbo argyrostomus sandwicensis (Pease, 1861)

Turbo sandwicensis, common name the Hawaiian top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1][2]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 15 mm and 45 mm. The shell is ovately turbinated, slightly perforated, somewhat tubulous and spirally ridged. The ridges are smooth alternately rather smaller, squamose. The scales are most prominent on the body whorl. The interstices between the ridges are finely imbricately laminated. The body whorl is somewhat angulated at the upper part. The color pattern of the shell is green, marbled and variegated with dark brownish red.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Turbo sandwicensis (Pease, 1861). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581914 on 2012-09-01
  2. ↑ Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamily Turbinidae, Genus Turbo. Errata, corrections and new information on the genera Lunella, Modelia and Turbo (vol. I). In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. Pp. 69-72, pls 96-103.
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany
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