Astralium

Astralium
Several views of Astralium calcar
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Astralium
Link, 1807[1]
Type species
Turbo calcar Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms
  • Astralium (Cyclocantha) Swainson, 1840
  • Calcar Montfort, 1810
  • Cyclocantha Swainson, 1840
  • Distellifer Iredale, 1937
  • Foliastralium Habe & Okutani, 1980
  • Macropelmus Gistel, 1848 (Unnecessary substitute name for Calcar Montfort, 1810)
  • Micrastrea Cotton, 1939
  • Okinawastraea Habe & Okutani, 1981
  • Pagocalcar Iredale, 1937
  • Rugastella Iredale, 1937
  • Stella P. Fischer, 1885
  • Turbo (Calcar) Montfort, 1810

Astralium, common name star snails, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails and star snails.[2]

Description

In Astralium a very rapidly enlarging whorl starts from the multispiral nucleus, forming far the greater portion of the operculum, and usually leaving a pit at the starting point. [3]

Distribution

This marine genus has a wide distribution ranging from the Eastern Indian Ocean to China and Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, East India, the Maldives and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia).

Species

According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are included within the genus Astralium :[4]

Another number of species are also mentioned in the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database :[5]

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. Link (1807). Beschr. Nat. Samml. Univ. Rostock (3): 135.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2012). Astralium Link, 1807. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204985 on 2012-09-09
  3. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  4. WoRMS : Astralium
  5. OBIS : Astralium

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