Turbo Linnaeus 1758 (snail)

Gastropoda - Trochoidea - Turbinidae

Parent taxon: Turbininae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also Bouchet et al. 2005, Harzhauser 2004, Ladd 1966, Ladd 1982, MacNeil 1960, Olsson 1967, Sepkoski 2002, Stanton 1895, Todd 2001, Weisbord 1962, Wilson 1993, Woodring 1928 and Woodring 1957

Sister taxa: Astralium, Barbotella, Bolma, Calcar, Deikella, Guildfordia, Heteroninella, Lithopoma, Pseudastralium, Pseudophasianus, Sarmaturbo, Tectariopsis, Imperator, Rothpletzella, Nummogaultina

Subtaxa: Turbo (Callopoma) Turbo (Carswellena) Turbo (Dinassivica) Turbo (Euninella) Turbo (Lunatica) Turbo (Lunella) Turbo (Marmarostoma) Turbo (Ninella) Turbo (Olearia) Turbo (Sarmaticus) Turbo (Senectus) Turbo (Subninella) Turbo (Taeniaturbo) Turbo (Turbo) Turbo abbreviatus Turbo agonistes Turbo alpinus Turbo angustus Turbo biliratus Turbo bozasi Turbo bruneus Turbo cinerea Turbo cochlearis Turbo colusaensis Turbo conformis Turbo corallii Turbo denticulatus Turbo elevatus Turbo ellipticus Turbo eurymedon Turbo fakaauensis Turbo fallax Turbo festivus Turbo gerannae Turbo gigas Turbo granulatus Turbo haudcarinatus Turbo haynesi Turbo helicinoides Turbo hybridus Turbo inflatus Turbo intermedius Turbo jaschianus Turbo laminiferus Turbo licas Turbo lorinae Turbo magister Turbo mantelli Turbo marmoratus Turbo multistriatus Turbo naricus Turbo nodulosocancellatus Turbo obliquus Turbo orthostoma Turbo ozawai Turbo perspeciosus Turbo petraea Turbo philippi Turbo philippii Turbo picteti Turbo portentus Turbo protocepoides Turbo pseudoundulatus Turbo pulcher Turbo radiosus Turbo regius Turbo saltus Turbo sarmaticus Turbo semiplicatilis Turbo serratus Turbo squamulosus Turbo subaciculus Turbo subcarinatus Turbo tenuicingulatus Turbo thouvignoni Turbo topangensis Turbo torosus Turbo torquatus Turbo trilineatus Turbo trimarginata Turbo trunensis Turbo undulatus Turbo vermiculosus Turbo versicolor Turbo vixcarinatus Turbo wilburensis Turbo zarcoi Turbo zonatus

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Type: Turbo petholatus

Ecology: epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (14 collections), Bermuda (1), Djibouti (4), Ecuador (1), Egypt (2), Eritrea (2), Fiji (1), French Polynesia (1), Guadeloupe (1), Guam (2), India (4), Jamaica (1), Japan (24), Jordan (3), Kenya (14), the Marshall Islands (1), Mauritius (1), Mexico (9), Morocco (1), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (3), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (2), Pitcairn (1), Saudi Arabia (7), the Seychelles (6), South Africa (9), Sudan (1), Tonga (5), Tuvalu (1), United States (26: Florida, Hawaii, North Carolina), Vanuatu (4), Venezuela (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Guam (1), South Africa (1), United States (3: Florida)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Costa Rica (3), the Dominican Republic (3), Ecuador (3), Fiji (1), Indonesia (7), Jamaica (6), Japan (9), Mexico (3), South Africa (5), Tuvalu (2), United States (5: Florida), Venezuela (15)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1)

• Miocene of Australia (4), Austria (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Fiji (5), Guam (1), Indonesia (8), Iran (1), Japan (10), Panama (2), Peru (2), the Philippines (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Christmas Island (1), United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Greece (2), Iran (3), Italy (1), Pakistan (4), Romania (1), United States (2: Mississippi)

• Eocene of Australia (4), France (3), Haiti (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (1), Japan (2), Peru (1), Romania (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Alabama, South Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene of France (1)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (2), France (6), Germany (3), Iran (4), Mexico (2), New Zealand (4), Portugal (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Switzerland (16), Turkmenistan (1), United States (5: California, Texas)

• Jurassic of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (2), France (4), Germany (1), Greenland (2), India (2), Italy (1), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: California), Yemen (1)

• Triassic of Germany (1), Hungary (2), Italy (20), Slovakia (1), United States (4: Alaska, Nevada)

Total: 405 collections including 547 occurrences

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