Astralium confragosum

Astralium confragosum
Drawing with two views of a shell of Astralium confragosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Astralium
Species: A. confragosum
Binomial name
Astralium confragosum
(Gould, 1851)
Synonyms[1]
  • Astralium plicatospinosum Pilsbry, 1889
  • Turbo confragosus Gould, 1851

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

Description

The size of the shell varies between 15 mm and 36 mm. Rather low-conic shell is conspicuously radiately plicate above. The folds are somewhat sigmoid and oblique, bearing a series of short rounded knobs above, and terminating in short spines, eighteen to twenty in number, at the carinated periphery. The base of the shell is flat, squamosely lirate. The aperture is tinged with green, especially at the columella. The wrinkled operculum is deep green. [3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Hawaii, French Polynesia and the Marianas.

References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Astralium confragosum (Gould, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581743 on 2012-09-01
  2. Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245.
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (described as Astralium confragosum)

External links

External identifiers for Astralium confragosum
WoRMS 581743
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