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Turbo (Turbo) petholatus

Gastropoda - Turbinidae

Taxonomy
Turbo petholatus was named by Linnaeus (1758) [m. kosnik taxon no: 8811]. It is extant. It is the type species of Turbo, Turbo (Turbo).

It was recombined as Turbo (Turbo) petholatus by Ladd (1966) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Subspecies
Turbo (Turbo) petholatus thanus
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
T. reticularis, T. thouvignoi, T. sanoi, T. yoshiharuyabei, T. hosodai

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1758Turbo petholatus Linnaeus
1910Turbo petholatus Montfort p. 203
1966Turbo (Turbo) petholatus Ladd p. 47
1987Turbo petholatus Short and Potter p. 14
2010Turbo (Turbo) petholatus Landau and Marques da Silva p. 14

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassVetigastropoda(Salvini-Plawen 1980)
superfamilyTrochoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyTurbinidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyTurbininaeRafinesque 1815
genusTurboLinnaeus 1758
subgenusTurboLinnaeus 1758
speciespetholatus(Linnaeus 1758)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Entire body: yesg
Adult width: 10 to < 100g
Adult height: 10 to < 100g
Thickness: intermediateg
Folds: noneg
Ribbing: minorg
Spines: minorg
Internal reinforcement: noneg
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: grazerf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-03-16 10:38:22
Modified: 2009-03-16 12:38:22
Source: g = genus, f = family, c = class
References: Abbott and Dance 1986, Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Holocene or 20.44000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (44 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Iran Turbo petholatus (191063)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Fiji Turbo petholatus (68292 68295)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Guam Turbo petholatus (77939)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Fiji Turbo petholatus (78060)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Fiji Turbo petholatus (68181)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Indonesia (East Java) Turbo petholatus (96670)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Japan (Okinawa) Turbo petholatus (42291 42292 42293 42294)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Fiji Turbo petholatus (94832)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Japan (Okinawa) Turbo petholatus (42344 42345 42347 42348 42350 42351 42360 42361 42362 42363)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Guam Turbo petholatus (77934 77936)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Eritrea Turbo petholatus (101415 101417)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Vanuatu Turbo petholatus (78042)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Sudan Turbo petholatus (101414)
Calabrian - Middle Pleistocene1.8 - 0.129Japan (Okinawa) Turbo petholatus (42297 42302 42305 42307)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Vanuatu Turbo petholatus (78043)
Middle Pleistocene0.774 - 0.129Japan (Okinawa) Turbo petholatus (42352 42355 42356)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan (Ryukyu) Turbo petholatus (41606)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Djibouti Turbo petholatus (96787 96788)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Saudi Arabia Turbo petholatus (192720)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Kenya Turbo petholatus (81072)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Tonga Turbo petholatus (96436)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Papua New Guinea (Morobe) Turbo petholatus (97437 97438)