Turbo bruneus

Turbo bruneus, common name the brown (Pacific) dwarf turban or the little burnt turbo, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae.[1]

Turbo bruneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. bruneus
Binomial name
Turbo bruneus
(Röding, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Lunatica brunneus Röding, 1791 (original description)
  • Turbo brunneus Röding, 1798
  • Turbo squamosa Röding, 1798
  • Turbo (Marmarostoma) brunneus (Röding, 1791)

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Central Indo-Pacific, in the Western Pacific Ocean, off East India, the Philippines and off Western Australia.

References
  1. Turbo bruneus (Röding, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 September 2012.
  • Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp
  • Rajagopal, A.S. & Mookherjee, H.P. 1978. Contributions to the molluscan fauna of India. Pt. I. Marine molluscs of the Coromandel Coast, Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar - Gastropoda: Archaeogastropoda. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 12: 1-48
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
  • Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 2000. Catalogue of marine molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 187: x, 323 pp
  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. [
  • 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.
  • "Turbo (Marmarostoma) bruneus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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