Harzhauser, Mathias;Landau, Bernard
Turritella
Sign in to saveTurritella is a genus of medium-sized sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyTurritellidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded42,323
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9,249
- With media
- 926
- Family
- Turritellidae
- Collections
- UWBM, LACM, PRI
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Turritellidae
- Image
- Turritella tricarinata, Empoli, Italia, 2021-01-15, DD 641-680 FS.jpg
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- Commons category
- Turritella
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Turritella
- topic's main category
- Category:Turritella
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Species
- Valid
- Invalid
- Fossil species
- "Turritella agate"
- Turritellenplatte
- References
- External links
Turritella is a genus of medium-sized sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.
They have tightly coiled shells, whose overall shape is basically that of an elongated cone.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turritella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.