Quick Search
To Advanced Search
Taxonomy
Family:
TURBINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Turbinidae (Family)
> Astraea (Genus)
> heliotropium (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Canthorbis Swainson, 1840
=Imperator Montfort, 1810
Synonymised Names:
=Imperator anthropophagus Marwick, 1928
=Imperator aureolatus Montfort, 1810
=Liotia solitaria Suter, 1908
=Solarium radiatum Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
=Trochus heliotropium Martyn, 1784
=Trochus imperialis Gmelin, 1791
Images: Astraea heliotropium (Martyn, 1784)
Trawled off Northland. 94mm
Trawled off Northland. 94mm
Trawled off Northland. 94mm
Taxonomy
Family:
TURBINIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
> Trochida (Order)
> Trochoidea (Superfamily)
> Turbinidae (Family)
> Astraea (Genus)
> heliotropium (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Canthorbis Swainson, 1840
=Imperator Montfort, 1810
Synonymised Names:
=Imperator anthropophagus Marwick, 1928
=Imperator aureolatus Montfort, 1810
=Liotia solitaria Suter, 1908
=Solarium radiatum Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
=Trochus heliotropium Martyn, 1784
=Trochus imperialis Gmelin, 1791
Details: Astraea heliotropium (Martyn, 1784)
Size/Grows to:
Width 120mm, Height 60mm
Distribution:
North, South, Stewart and Chatham Islands
Notes:
Circular Saw Shell, Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.66)
  • Dec/1962 Captain Cook's Imperial Sun Trochus Astraea heliotropium, Poirieria, 1(2)
  • Martyn, T. 1784 The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells 1-4, vol 1-4 Original Description

*98 © Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (CC-BY-NC-ND)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
Recently Viewed