Vasum turbinellus is a species of gastropods belonging to the family Turbinellidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Turbinellidae |
| Subfamily: | Vasinae |
| Genus: | Vasum |
| Species: | V. turbinellus
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| Vasum turbinellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 36.7 mm and 86 mm.
The shell is yellowish white and chestnut-black, stained and obscurely banded. The aperture is yellowish white. The border of the outer lip is black-spotted.[2]
Distribution
editThe species is found in Western Africa, Indian Ocean, Malesia,the Philippines,Indonesia, New Caledonia, the South China Sea, Australia.[1]
Fossils have been found in Quaternary strata of Saudi Arabia (age range: 0.126 to 0.012 Ma).
References
edit- ^ a b "Vasum turbinellus (Linnaeus, 1758)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 24 October 2021.
- ^ Tryon (1882), Manual of Conchology IV
- Drivas, J. & Jay, M. (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection les beautés de la nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. pp. 1–160.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
- B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva. 2010. Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy. Palaeontos 19:1-221
External links
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- Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata (10th revised edition), vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae
- Abbott, R. T. (1959). The family Vasidae in the Indo-Pacific. Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 1 (1): 15-32
- Perry, G. (1811). Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries. 4 pp., 61 plates. London.
- Lamarck, (J.-B. M.) de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième. Paris: published by the Author, 711 pp.