Turbo pustulatus
Turbo pustulatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]
| Turbo pustulatus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Turbo |
| Species: | T. pustulatus |
| Binomial name | |
| Turbo pustulatus Brocchi, 1821 | |
| Synonyms | |
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This has become a nomen dubium.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar.
References
- Turbo pustulatus Brocchi, 1821. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 2 October 2012.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp
- Mienis H.K. (2011) Remarks concerning Turbo pustulatus, Turbo pyropus and Collonia gestroi, with the description of Yaronia: a new genus for a small turbinid species from the Red Sea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Triton [Journal of the Israel Malacological Society] 23: 1–4.
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