Turbo pustulatus

Turbo pustulatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Turbo
Species:	T. pustulatus
Binomial name
Turbo pustulatus Brocchi, 1821
Synonyms
Homalopoma pustulatum(Brocchi, 1821) Turbo (Turbo) pustulatusHelbling, G.S., 1779

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

This has become a nomen dubium.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar.

References

1. Turbo pustulatus Brocchi, 1821 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 2 October 2012.

• Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp
• Mienis H.K. (2011) Remarks concerning Turbo pustulatus, Turbo pyropus and Collonia gestroi, with the description of Yaronia: a new genus for a small turbinid species from the Red Sea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Triton [Journal of the Israel Malacological Society] 23: 1–4.

External links

• Gastropods.com: Turbo (Turbo) pustulatus