Leal, José H.
Turritellidae
Sign in to saveTurritellidae, with the common name "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small- to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the Sorbeoconcha clade.
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It sits within the topics Gastropod families, Source attribution and Turritellidae.
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Species
auger shells
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyTurritellidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 3,319
- With media
- 94
- Family
- Turritellidae
- Collections
- LACM, UF, YPM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cerithioidea
- Image
- Turritellidae.jpg
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- Commons category
- Turritellidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon name
- Turritellidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Turritellidae
- taxon common name
- Turmschnecken
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Shell description
- Anatomy of the soft parts
- Taxonomy
- Palaeontological locations
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Turritellidae, with the common name "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small- to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the Sorbeoconcha clade.
They are filter feeders; this method of feeding is somewhat unusual among gastropod mollusks, but is very common in bivalves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turritellidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.