Malacolog 4.1.1: Western Atlantic Mollusk Species Database at The Academy of Natural Sciences

Malacolog Version 4.1.1

A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

Gastropoda: : Trochoidea: Turbininae

Astralium calcar (Linnaeus, 1758)
Not found in the Western Atlantic

Maximum Reported Size: 33 mm

Synonymy

Turbo calcar Linnaeus, 1758
Trochus stella Lamarck, 1822

Details

Turbo calcar Linnaeus, 1758, p. 762-763, [List. 4, s.6, t.1, f.3-4; Rumph. t.20, f.I; Gualt. t.65, f.N. P?; Argen. t.9, f.R; Klein t.1, f.27]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: ad Amboinam

Trochus stella Lamarck, 1822b, p. 12-13, [Chemnitz, 1781, pl. 164, fig. 1552]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Saint-Domingue [in error]
Maximum Reported Size: 33 mm
References: Lamarck (1822b) M
Comments: Probably the Indo-Pacific Astraea calcar with incorrect locality data.

Partial List of References

Lamarck, [J. B.] 1822. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres 7 [iii] + 711 pp. Author: Paris. [Stated date: -- Aug 1822.]
Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema Naturae Systema Naturae, 10th ed., vol. 1 824 pp. Laurentii Salvii: Holmiae [Stockholm, Sweden].

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