Nomenclature of the horned turbans previously known as Turbo cornutus [Lightfoot], 1786 and Turbo chinensis Ozawa & Tomida, 1995 (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea: Turbinidae) from China, Japan and Korea

ABSTRACT

Based on the examination of old literature, the names of two species of Batillus Schumacher, 1817, a subgenus of Turbo Linnaeus, 1758, are revised. Turbo cornutus [Lightfoot], 1786 should be restricted to the species endemic to southern China and Taiwan. Turbo chinensis Ozawa & Tomida, 1995 is the junior synonym of T. cornutus. The species of Japan and Korea has long been misidentified with T. cornutus. Turbo japonicus Reeve, 1848 has been used for two very different species: one from Mauritius and another from Japan, with the species from Mauritius being valid, and a member of the subgenus Marmarostoma Swainson, 1840, while the Japanese/Korean species, lacking an available name, is provided with a new replacement name, T. sazae nom. nov.

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KEYWORDS:

• Batillus
• bibliography
• new replacement name
• taxonomy
• topshell
• Turbo cernicus
• Turbo japonicus
• Turbo sazae

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Andreia Salvador and David Reid for providing the photographs of the type material of Turbo japonicus and T. cernicus. All those images (copyright of the Natural History Museum, London) were taken by Harry Taylor of NHMUK Photographic Unit. Kazunori Hasegawa and Yuichi Kameda are thanked for their assistance of my examination of the type specimens of T. chinensis deposited in the National Science Museum, Tokyo. Tetsuya Watanabe of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum loaned me a specimen of T. sazae. Owen Griffiths kindly sent me important literature. Don Colgan, Takuma Haga, Yuichi Kameda, Bruce Marshall, Tomoyuki Nakano, Winston Ponder, and an anonymous reviewer provided many useful comments on the manuscript.

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