Astralium heimburgi

Astralium heimburgi
shell of Astralium heimburgi (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Astralium
Species:	A. heimburgi
Binomial name
Astralium heimburgi (Dunker, 1882)
Synonyms [1]
Astraea heimburgi(Dunker, 1882) Uvanilla heimburgiDunker, 1882

Astralium heimburgi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 25 mm. The conic shell is imperforate. The five whorls are flattened and subgranosely densely lirate. The periphery is carinated, armed with compressed imbricated subdeflexed spines. The base of the shell is plano-convex, ornamented with spiral subimbricated lirae. The columella has an oblong excavation at its termination. The aperture is subrotund, silvery margaritaceous within. The shell color is whitish, subroseous at the base. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan and Indonesia.

References

1. Astralium heimburgi 581747 . 20 November 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. 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.
3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

External links

• Dunker, W. (1882). Index molluscorum maris japonici, conscriptus et tabulis iconum xvi illustratus. Novitates Conchologicae. Abbildung und Beschreibung Neuer Conchylien Supplement VII. Cassel: T. Fischer. p. 130. Retrieved 20 November 2025.
• GenBank (2 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
• World Register of Marine Species
• "Astralium heimburgi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.