''Turbo stenogyrus'', common name the miniature turban, is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Turbinidae.
* Taxonomic status: Some authors place the name in the subgenus ''Turbo (Marmarostoma)''
Description
The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 35 mm. The acute, elongate, imperforate shell has an ovate-conic shape. The six
whorl
A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
Whorls in nature
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s are rounded, transversely lirate, radiate and finely striate. The
body whorl
The body whorl is part of the morphology of the shell in those gastropod mollusks that possess a coiled shell. The term is also sometimes used in a similar way to describe the shell of a cephalopod mollusk.
In gastropods
In gastropods, the b ...
scarcely exceeds the balance of the shell in length. The
suture is margined. The lirae are narrow. Below the shell has flat ribs. The interstices and below the suture are striate. The circular
aperture is silvery within. The
columella is regularly arcuate and not produced at its base. The color pattern of the shell is pale green, with chestnut maculations, the lirae are white and brown articulated.
G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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This species is host to the ectoparasitic copepod
Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthos, benthic (living on the ocean floor) ...
'' Parapanaietis turbo'' Hoshina & Kuwabara, 1958
Distribution
This species occurs in the southwest Pacific and off Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
, the Philippines and Indonesia.
References
* Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). ''A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo''. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany.
* 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
Fischer, P. (1873). Diagnoses specierum novarum. Journal de Conchyliologie. 21(2): 126-127
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
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stenogyrus
Gastropods described in 1873