Astralium wallisi
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| synonyms = Distellifer wallisi Iredale, 1937 (original combination)
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Astralium wallisi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.{{WRMS species|413393|Astralium wallisi (Iredale, 1937)||20 April 2010}}
This species is considered by the Australian Faunal Directory as a synonym of Astralium rhodostomum (Lamarck, 1822) [http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Astralium_rhodostoma Astralium rhodostoma (Lamarck, 1822)]
Description
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Distribution
This species is endemic to Australia and was found on the Middleton Reef, a coral reef in the Tasman Sea.
References
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- Iredale,T. 1937. Middleton and Elizabeth Reef, South Pacific Ocean. The Australian Zoologist 8: 232–261
- Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592.
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Category:Gastropods of Australia
Category:Gastropods described in 1937
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