Turbo cernicus

Turbo cernicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1][2]

Turbo cernicus
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Turbo cernicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. cernicus
Binomial name
Turbo cernicus
G.B. Sowerby III, 1886
Synonyms

Turbo (Marmarostoma) cernicus Sowerby, G.B. III, 1886

G.W. Tryon was of the opinion that this species is a synonym of Turbo (Turbo) japonicus Reeve, L.A., 1848, which in turn is a synonym of Turbo cornutus Lightfoot, 1786 [3]

Description

The solid, subventricose, imperforate shell has an ovate conic shape. Its color pattern is yellowish, longitudinally flammulated. The acute spire is elevated. The convex whorls are sloping above, minutely obliquely striate, encircled by wide flattened ribs, alternating with smaller. The body whorl is obtusely angulated above, lightly depressed above the angle, and scarcely canaliculate. The aperture is circular. The acute lip is scalloped. The thick columella is convex, slightly arcuate and slightly produced at base, and longitudinally plicated.

The operculum is very convex outside. It is green, suffused with bright reddish brown, and conspicuously granulose.[3]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and Réunion; also in the Central Pacific.

Notes

Additional information regarding this species:[1]

  • Taxonomic status: Some authors place the name in the subgenus Turbo (Marmarostoma)

References
  1. WoRMS (2012). Turbo cernicus G.B. Sowerby III, 1886. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534205 on 2012-09-01
  2. Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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