Astralium stellare

Astralium stellare
Apertural view of a shell of Astralium stellare
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Astralium
Species:	A. stellare
Binomial name
Astralium stellare (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
Astraea (Astralium) stellare (Gmelin, 1791) Distellifer stellare Cotton, B.C. 1964 Trochus chemnitzi Valenciennes, 1846 Turbo stellaris Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)

Astralium stellare, common name the blue-mouthed turban, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 50 mm. The solid, imperforate shell has a conoid shape. It is more or less elevated. The 5-6 whorls are obliquely radiately costate, imbricately spinose at the periphery. The body whorl is carinated, carina with about ten long vaulted spines. The base of the shell contains about ten concentric squamose lirae. The white columella is oblique and is generally rosy margined, rarely bluish. The aperture is angulated.[2]

The white or green operculum is granulose outside. The animal has no lateral filaments.

Drawing with animal and shell

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the tropical Indo- West Pacific and off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

References

1. Astralium stellare (Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
2. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

• Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021-3910.
• Valenciennes, A. 1846. Mollusques. pls 1–24 in Dupetit-Thouars, A.H. (ed.). Voyage autour du monde sur le frigat la Venus commande par Abel Dupetit-Thouars. Atlas de Zoologie, Mollusques. Paris : Gide.
• Cotton, B.C. 1964. Molluscs of Arnhem Land. Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land 4 (Zoology): 9–43
• Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
• Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592.

External links

• "Astralium stellare". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.