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| name = ''Megastraea undosa''
| name = ''Megastraea undosa''
| image = Lithopoma undosum.jpg
| image = Lithopoma undosum.jpg
| image_caption = [[Gastropod shell|Shell]] of ''Megastraea undosa'' (W. Wood, 1828), with [[operculum]] measuring 71.4 mm height by 89.9 mm diameter, collected at Salt Creek Beack, [[Laguna Niguel]], in [[California]].
| image_caption = [[Gastropod shell|Shell]] of ''Megastraea undosa'' (W. Wood, 1828), with [[operculum]] measuring 71.4 mm height by 89.9 mm diameter, collected at Salt Creek Beach, [[Laguna Niguel]], in [[California]].
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Mollusca]]
| phylum = [[Mollusca]]

Revision as of 13:58, 9 November 2011

Megastraea undosa
Shell of Megastraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828), with operculum measuring 71.4 mm height by 89.9 mm diameter, collected at Salt Creek Beach, Laguna Niguel, in California.
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M. undosa
Binomial name
Megastraea undosa
(W. Wood, 1828)
Synonyms

Lithopoma undosum (W. Wood, 1828)
Astraea undosa (W. Wood, 1828)
Trochus undosus W. Wood, 1828 (basionym)

An old shell of Megastraea undosa, wedged under a rock and covered in the pink coralline alga Lithothamnion, which has cemented it to the subtrate.

Megastraea undosa[1] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails. This species is native to the coast of California[2].

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  • Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245.
  • 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.