Turbo militaris

Species of gastropod

Turbo militaris

Drawing of a shell of Turbo militaris (smooth form)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Turbinidae
Genus:  | Turbo
Species:  |

T. militaris

Binomial name
Turbo militaris

Reeve, 1848

Synonyms[1]

* Turbo (Dinassovica) militaris Reeve, 1848
* Turbo (Lunatica) militaris Reeve, 1848

Turbo militaris, common name the military turban, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae.[1]

This species is also often confused with Turbo imperialis.[2]

## Description

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The length of the shell varies between 60 mm and 100 mm. The large, solid shell has rounded whorls. It is variable in its external morphology, due to the presence or absence of spines. There are both smooth (except for growth striae close the lips) and spiny forms (with two rows of open-fronted spines on the body whorl). There are also forms with a morphology between these two extremes. They also differ in the presence of the anterior canal, which is almost non-existent in the smooth forms, but prominent in the spiny forms. These two forms can be found together on the same site. The aperture is subcircular and pearly white within. The simple outer lip is rather thin. The color pattern of the shell is formed by spiral bands of brown or green over a fawn background. The columella is smooth with a white callus with green edges. The subcircular operculum is calcareous. Its outer surface is white with a slight amount of green.

## Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Australia from North Queensland to New South Wales, Australia

## References

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1. ^ a b Turbo militaris Reeve, 1848. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 October 2012.
2. ^ The Natural History Museum website [1] accessed 9 April 2014

* 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
* Reeve, L.A. 1848. Monograph of the genus Turbo. pls 1–13 in Reeve, L.A. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 4.
* Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian Shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs.
* Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109
* Cernohorsky, W. O. (1974). "Type Specimens of Mollusca in the University Zoological Museum, Copenhagen". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 11: 143–192. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906212. Wikidata Q58676985.
* 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.
* Alf, A. & Kreipl, K. 2003. A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 68 pp., 95 colour plates.
* 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.
* Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamily Turbinidae, Genus Turbo. Errata, corrections and new information on the genera Lunella, Modelia and Turbo (vol. I). In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 69–72, pls 96–103

## External links

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* "Turbo (Dinassovica) militaris". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
* Seashells of New South Wales: Turbo (Dinassovica) militaris
* Steven Smith, Margie Möhring, Adam Davey: Variation in the external morphology of Turbo militaris, Reeve, 1848

Taxon identifiers

Turbo militaris|

* Wikidata: Q7853866
* AFD: Turbo_(Lunatica)_militaris
* BOLD: 153679
* CoL: 59N58
* GBIF: 5859898
* iNaturalist: 551104
* IRMNG: 11735000
* NCBI: 405994
* OBIS: 581912
* Open Tree of Life: 24626
* Paleobiology Database: 62662
* SeaLifeBase: 172463
* WoRMS: 581912