Astralium rotularium

Astralium rotularium
Apertural view of Astralium rotularium
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Astralium
Species: A. rotularium
Binomial name
Astralium rotularium
(Lamarck, 1822) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Trochus rotularius Lamarck, 1822

Astralium rotularium, common name the rotary star shell or the knob star shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[2][3]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm. The white, subdepressed, imperforate shell has a conoid shape. The spire is subacute. The six whorls are obliquely finely costulate with numerous prominent imbricating laterally compressed plicae at the sutures. The body whorl is carinated with plicate-nodose carina. The base of the shell is convex, squamosely concentrically lirate. The white columella is arcuate,not dentate. The aperture is oblique.[4]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia

References

  1. Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Suite des Gastéropodes. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 6(2) 232 pp.
  2. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Astralium rotularium (Lamarck, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=581733 on 2012-09-01
  3. 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.
  4. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

External links

External identifiers for Astralium rotularium
WoRMS 581733
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