Turbinella
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| Turbinella | |
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| Turbinella laevigata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Turbinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Turbinellinae |
| Genus: | Turbinella Lamarck, 1799[1] |
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| Voluta pyrum Linnaeus, 1767 |
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Buccinella Perry, 1811 |
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Turbinella is a genus of large sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae. [2]
These species are sometimes known as "chanks" or "chank shells". One species in this genus is the sacred chank (Turbinella pyrum), see Shankha.
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[edit] Distribution
Species in this genus are found world-wide, mostly in tropical shallow waters.
[edit] Description
Most species have massive shells with three or four prominent columellar plicae.
[edit] Species
Species within the genus Turbinella include:
- Turbinella angulata (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Turbinella fusus G. B. Sowerby I, 1825 [1]
- Turbinella laevigata Anton, 1838
- Turbinella laffertyi Kilburn, 1975
- Turbinella ponderosa (Lightfoot, 1786)
- Turbinella pyrum Linnaeus, 1758 - the sacred chank or shankha
- Turbinella regina Heilprin, 1886 [2]
- † Turbinella wheeleri Petuch, 1994 [3]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Turbinella armigera Lesson, 1842 : synonym of Reishia armigera (Link, 1807)
[edit] References
- ^ Lamarck (1799). Mém. Soc. Hist. nat. Paris 73.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Turbinella Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204588 on 2011-04-27
