''Astralium latispina'' is a
species of
sea snail
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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, the turban snails.
[Rosenberg, G. (2012). ''Astralium latispina'' (Philippi, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532418 on 2012-09-01]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 75 mm. The imperforate shell has a conic shape. It is greenish, brown maculated. The seven
whorls are subplanate, obliquely costulate below the
sutures, then with two beaded spiral lirae. The margins of the whorls are exserted, expanded, compressed, armed with triangular spines. 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 ...
is sharply carinate. The base of the shell is radiately lamellose and ornamented with three or four granose concentric costae. The umbilical area is depressed, pale greenish or yellowish. The oblique
aperture is angulate. The oval
operculum is on the outside white, smooth, with a single arcuate wide rib. On the inside it is flat, chestnut colored. The nucleus is submarginal.
G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil.
References
Monteiro and Coelho (2001), ''Comparative morphology of ''Astraea latispina'' (Philippi, 1844) and ''Astraea olfersii'' (Philippi, 1846) (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Turbinidae)''
External links
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To World Register of Marine Species
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latispina
Gastropods described in 1844