Astralium wallisi
Appearance
Astralium wallisi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Turbinidae |
Genus: | Astralium |
Species: | A. wallisi
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Binomial name | |
Astralium wallisi (Iredale, 1937)
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Synonyms | |
Distellifer wallisi Iredale, 1937 (original combination) |
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]
Description
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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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