Astralium
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| Astralium | |
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| Several views of Astralium calcar | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Turbinidae |
| Genus: | Astralium Link, 1807[1] |
| Type species | |
| Turbo calcar Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Astralium, common name star snails, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails and star snails.[2]
Distribution
This marine genus has a wide distribution ranging from the Eastern Indian Ocean to China and Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, East India, the Maldives and Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia).
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species are included within the genus Astralium :[4]
- † Astralium aquitanicum Benoist, 1874
- Astralium asteriscus (Reeve, 1843)
- Astralium bichlinhorum Thach, 2023
- † Astralium biserialis (K. Martin, 1884)
- Astralium calcar (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Astralium confragosum (Gould, 1851)
- Astralium danieli (Alf & Kreipl, 2006)
- Astralium dekkeri (Thach, 2018)
- † Astralium ena Tomida, Inoue & Kase, 2022 †
- † Astralium eniwetokense (Ladd, 1966) †
- † Astralium girondinum (A. d'Orbigny, 1842)
- Astralium haematragum (Menke, 1829)
- † Astralium hayakawai (Kanno, 1958)
- Astralium heimburgi (Dunker, 1882)
- Astralium lapillus Reeve, 1863
- Astralium latispina (Philippi, 1844)
- † Astralium loochooensis (MacNeil, 1961)
- Astralium milloni (B. Salvat, F. Salvat & Richard, 1973)
- Astralium nakamineae (Habe & Okutani, 1981)
- Astralium okamotoi Kuroda & Habe, 1961
- Astralium pileolum (Reeve, 1842)
- † Astralium proprium (Hatai & Kotaka, 1952)
- Astralium provisorium Schepman, 1908
- Astralium rhodostomum (Lamarck, 1822)
- Astralium rotularium (Lamarck, 1822)
- Astralium saturnum Chino, 1999
- Astralium semicostatum (Kiener, 1850)
- Astralium stellare (Gmelin, 1791)
- Astralium tentoriiforme (Jonas, 1845)
- Astralium tentorium (Thiele, 1930)
- † Astralium verbeeki Icke, 1907
- Astralium wallisi (Iredale, 1937)
- † Astralium waluense (Ladd, 1966)
- Astralium yamamurae Habe & Kosuge, 1966
Another number of species are also mentioned in the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database :[5]
- Astralium turcicus Reeve, 1848 [citation needed]
