Turbo histrio

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Turbo histrio
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Drawing of a shell of Turbo histrio
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. histrio
Binomial name
Turbo histrio
Reeve, 1848
Synonyms [1]
  • Turbo histrio f. bicolorSowerby III, 1886
  • Turbo (Marmarostoma) histrioReeve, 1848

Turbo histrio is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. [1] [2]

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Description

The height of the shell attains 45 mm, its diameter 40 mm. The shell is somewhat globose, swollen, and imperforated. The sutures of the spire are excavately channelled and spirally ridged. These ridges are very finely laminiferous and squamate. The scales are strong and erect. The color of the shell is snowy-white, broadly rayed with orange-rust color. The interior is silvered. [3]

Distribution

This marine species was found in the Indian Ocean off the Amirante Islands

Notes

Additional information regarding this species: [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 WoRMS (2012). Turbo histrio Reeve, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534216 on 2012-09-01
  2. ↑ Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany.
  3. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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