Tegula brunnea

Tegula brunnea
A live individual of Tegula brunnea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Tegulidae
Genus: Tegula
Species:
T. brunnea
Binomial name
Tegula brunnea
(Philippi, 1848)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Chlorostoma brunnea (Philippi, 1848)
  • Chlorostoma brunneum (Philippi, 1848)
  • Trochus brunneus Philippi, 1849 (original combination)

Tegula brunnea, common name the brown turban snail, is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae, .[2][3]

This is an Eastern Pacific Ocean species which was previously known as Chlorostoma brunnea.

  1. ^ Philippi. Zeitschr.f. Mal., 1848, p. 189,
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Tegula brunnea (Philippi, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534187 on 2013-12-10
  3. ^ McLean J.M. (2007) Gastropoda. In: J. T. Carlton, ed., The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon, ed. 4. University of California Press, Los Angeles. Pp. 355–373.