Turbo tursicus

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

Turbo tursicus
Drawing with an abapertural view of a shell of Turbo tursicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. tursicus
Binomial name
Turbo tursicus
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]

Turbo somnueki Patamakanthin, 2001

Description

The shell grows to a length of 20 mm. The imperforated shell is somewhat pyramidally ovate. The sutures of the spire are excavated. The whorls are spirally squamately ridged, slanting around the upper part, sharply angled, erectly squamate at the angle. The aperture is small.

This species is well characterized by its style of painting. It is whitish with broad scarlet rays, particularly distinct on the sloping upper surfaces of the whorls. These are sometimes edged with black posteriorly, and the suture is more or less stained with that color. The lower part of the body whorl is for the most part scarlet with a few narrow white streaks (sometimes black-spotted) radiating from the umbilical region. The operculum is white, thick, convex, and granose externally.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off East Africa and the Seychelles; off the Andaman Islands, Thailand and the Philippines.

References
  1. Turbo tursicus (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 March 2011.
  2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

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