Astralium wallisi

Astralium wallisi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Astralium
Species:	A. wallisi
Binomial name
	Astralium wallisi; (Iredale, 1937)
Synonyms
	Distellifer wallisiIredale, 1937 (original combination)

Last updated October 08, 2025

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

This species is considered by the Australian Faunal Directory as a synonym of Astralium rhodostomum (Lamarck, 1822)^[2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia and was found on the Middleton Reef, a coral reef in the Tasman Sea.

References

↑ Astralium wallisi (Iredale, 1937) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
↑ Astralium rhodostoma (Lamarck, 1822)

Iredale,T. 1937. Middleton and Elizabeth Reef, South Pacific Ocean. The Australian Zoologist 8: 232–261
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.

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[WoRMS-1] Astralium wallisi (Iredale, 1937) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.

[2] Astralium rhodostoma (Lamarck, 1822)

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