Turbo bruneus

Turbo bruneus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Turbinidae
Genus:	Turbo
Species:	T. bruneus
Binomial name
	Turbo bruneus; (Röding, 1791)
Synonyms
	Lunatica brunneus Röding, 1791 (original description); Turbo brunneus Röding, 1798; Turbo squamosa Röding, 1798; Turbo (Marmarostoma) brunneus (Röding, 1791);

Turbo bruneus, common name the brown (Pacific) dwarf turban or the little burnt turbo, is a species of sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae.^[1]

Description[]

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution[]

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Central Indo-Pacific, in the Western Pacific Ocean, off East India, the Philippines and off Western Australia.

References[]

^ ^a ^b Turbo bruneus (Röding, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 September 2012.

Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp
Rajagopal, A.S. & Mookherjee, H.P. 1978. Contributions to the molluscan fauna of India. Pt. I. Marine molluscs of the Coromandel Coast, Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar - Gastropoda: Archaeogastropoda. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 12: 1–48
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
Subba Rao, N.V. & Dey, A. 2000. Catalogue of marine molluscs of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper 187: x, 323 pp
Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany. [
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[]

"Turbo (Marmarostoma) bruneus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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[WoRMS-1] Turbo bruneus (Röding, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 September 2012.

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