Turbo intercostalis

A shell of Turbo intercostalis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Turbo
Species:	T. intercostalis
Binomial name
*Turbo intercostalis* Menke in Philippi, 1846
Synonyms^[1]
Turbo concinnus Philippi Turbo disjunctus Anton Turbo intercostalis Menke, 1843 Turbo (Marmarostoma) intercostalis Menke in Philippi, 1846 Turbo pulcher Reeve, 1842 Turbo radiatus Reeve, 1848 Turbo sandwicensis Pease, 1861 Turbo semicostatus Pease, 1861

Turbo intercostalis, common name the ribbed turban, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 80 mm. The solid, perforate shell has an ovate-conic shape. Its color pattern is green or gray, radiately flammulated with black, green or brown, sometimes unicolored. The six whorls are convex and sometimes subangulate above. They contain numerous unequal revolving lirae and obsolescent incremental striae. The aperture is round, the upper angle sometimes separated from the body whorl, and projecting. The base of the shell is rounded. The columella is excavated at the umbilicus.

The circular operculum contains five whorls. Its outer surface is granulose, green or olivaceous at its center, yellowish at the margins.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs of Western and Southwestern Australia; in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene Basin and the Hawaiian Islands.

References

^ ^a ^b Turbo intercostalis Menke, 1843. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 September 2012.
^ G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Turbo imperialis Gmelin, 1791)

Reeve, L.A. 1842. New species of the genera Trochus and Turbo. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1842: 184–186
Menke, C.T. 1843. Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae Specimen in Libraria Aulica Hahniana. Hannoverae : Libraria Aulica Hahniana pp. 1–46.
Pease, W.H. 1861. Descriptions of 47 new species of shells from the Sandwich Islands, in the collection of H. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 431–438
Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1936. Notes from the British Museum. VII. Turbo intercostalis Menke. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 22: 137–138
Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls
Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls.
Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian Marine Shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp.
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany
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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Taxon identifiers

Taxon identifiers
Turbo intercostalis	Wikidata: Q7853853 AFD: Turbo_(Marmarostoma)_intercostalis BOLD: 153676 CoL: 59N3V GBIF: 4358543 iNaturalist: 605852 IRMNG: 10840362 OBIS: 216379 Open Tree of Life: 2885659 Paleobiology Database: 147255 WoRMS: 216379