Turbinella

Turbinella
Turbinella
Turbinella laevigata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Turbinellidae
Subfamily: Turbinellinae
Genus: Turbinella
Lamarck, 1799[1]
Type species
Voluta pyrum Linnaeus, 1767
species

See text
Synonyms[2]

Buccinella Perry, 1811

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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Distribution

Species in this genus are found world-wide, mostly in tropical shallow waters.

Description

Most species have massive shells with three or four prominent columellar plicae.

Species

Hindu priest blowing a trumpet made out of a large shell of Turbinella pyrum, in Tirupati, India

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)

References

  1. ^ Lamarck (1799). Mém. Soc. Hist. nat. Paris 73.
  2. ^ 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

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