Megastraea undosa

Megastraea undosa
Shell and operculum of Megastraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828), measuring 71.4 mm height by 89.9 mm diameter, collected at Salt Creek Beach, Laguna Niguel, in California.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Megastraea
Species:
M. undosa
Binomial name
Megastraea undosa
(W. Wood, 1828) [1]
Synonyms'[2]
  • Lithopoma undosum (W. Wood, 1828)
  • Astraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828)
  • Pomaulax undosum W. Wood, 1828
  • Trochus undosus W. Wood, 1828 (basionym)
An old empty shell of Megastraea undosa, wedged under a rock and covered in the pink coralline alga Lithothamnion, which has cemented it to the substrate.

Megastraea undosa, common name the wavy turban snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[2] This species is native to the coast of California.[3]

  1. ^ Wood, Index Test. Suppl., pl. V fig. 7
  2. ^ a b Megastraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 26 August 2011.
  3. ^ Astraea undosa - Properties - The Taxonomicon Archived 18 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine