Turritella

Turritella
Temporal range: Late Jurassic–recent [1]
Shells of different Turritella species
Fossil shells of Turritella cingulifera from the Pliocene of Cyprus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Genus: Turritella
Lamarck, 1799[2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Colpospirella Powell, 1951
  • Haustator (Kurosioia) Ida, 1952
  • Proto Blainville, 1824 (Invalid: junior homonym of Proto Leach, 1814 [Crustacea])
  • Torcula Gray, 1847
  • Turritella (Eglisia) Gray, 1847
  • Turritella (Haustator) Montfort, 1810
  • Turritella (Mesalia) Gray, 1847
  • † Turritella (Tomyris) Michailovskij, 1912 †· accepted, alternate representation
  • Turritella (Torcula) Gray, 1847
  • Turritella (Zaria) Gray, 1847
  • Zaria Gray, 1847

Turritella is a genus of medium-sized sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.[3]

They have tightly coiled shells, whose overall shape is basically that of an elongated cone.

The name Turritella comes from the Latin word turritus meaning "turreted" or "towered" and the diminutive suffix -ella.[4]

  1. ^ Shiladri S. Das; Sandip Saha; Subhendu Bardhan; Sumanta Mallick; Warren D. Allmon (2018). "The oldest turritelline gastropods: from the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) of Kutch, India". Journal of Paleontology. 92 (3): 373–387. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.89. S2CID 135438872.
  2. ^ Lamarck J.-B. (1799). Mém. Soc. Hist. nat. Paris, 74.
  3. ^ a b Vos, C.; Gofas, S. (2013). Turritella Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138615 on 2013-06-02
  4. ^ Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. 2nd ed. 1979.