Astraea heliotropium

Astraea heliotropium
Astraea heliotropium
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Subfamily: Turbininae
Genus: Astraea
Species: A. heliotropium
Binomial name
Astraea heliotropium
(Martyn, 1784)

Astraea heliotropium or the circular saw shell, is a large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc of the family Turbinidae, the turbans and star snails.[2]

Contents

Distribution

New Zealand[1]

Shell description

The height of the shell is up to 60 mm, and the width is up to 120 mm.

References

  1. ^ a b Mollusc Specialist Group (2000). Astraea heliotropium. In: IUCN 2010. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2010.4. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 08 March 2011.
  2. ^ WoRMS (2010). Astraea heliotropium (Martyn, 1784). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404992 on 2011-03-08

Further reading

  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 85467 054 8

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