Astralium wallisi

Astralium wallisi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Astralium wallisi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Astralium
Species:
A. wallisi
Binomial name
Astralium wallisi
(Iredale, 1937)
Synonyms

Distellifer wallisi Iredale, 1937 (original combination)

This species is considered by the Australian Faunal Directory as a synonym of Astralium rhodostomum (Lamarck, 1822) [2]

Distribution

This species is endemic to Australia and was found on the Middleton Reef, a coral reef in the Tasman Sea.

References

  • 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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