Turridae

Taxobox
name = Turridae


image_caption = "Phenatoma zealandica"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Conoidea
familia = Turridae
familia_authority = Swainson, 1840
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

Turridae, common name the turrids, is a very voluminous taxonomic family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, which vary in size from minute to medium-large.

There are more than 4,000 species of turrids.

Turrids have a well developed poison gland associated with the radula, which is of varied type.

hell description

The Turridae have elongate fusiform shells which are commonly but not inevitably characterized by a posterior sinus, the position of which may be sutural, on the shoulder slope, or at the peripheral carina. This sinus is commonly known as the "turrid notch".

Genera in the family Turridae

* "Aforia" Dall, 1889
* "Anacithara" Hedley, 1922
* "Anticomitas" Powell, 1942
* "Antiguraleus" Powell, 1942
* "Antimelatoma" Powell, 1942
* "Antiplanes" Dall, 1902
* "Aoteadrillia" Powell, 1942
* "Asperdaphne" Hedley, 1922
* "Austrodrillia" Hedley, 1918
* "Bathybela" Kobelt, 1905
* "Bathytoma" Harris & Burrows, 1891
* "Carinapex"
* "Carinoturris" Bartsch, 1944
* "Ceritoturris"
* "Clavus" Montfort, 1810
* "Cochlespira" Conrad, 1865
* "Comarmondia" Monterosato, 1884
* "Comitas" Finlay, 1926
* "Compsodrillia" Woodring, 1928
* "Crassispira" Swainson, 1840
* "Daphnella" Hinds, 1844
* "Eucithara"
* "Fenimorea"
* "Gemmula" Weinkauff, 1875
* "Haedropleura" Bucquoy, Dautzen., Dollfus, 1883
* "Hauturua" Powell, 1942
* "Heterocithara" Hedley, 1922
* "Hindsiclava" Hertlein and Strong, 1955
* "Inodrillia" Bartsch, 1943
* "Iredalea"
* "Irenosyrinx" Dall, 1908
* "Kermia"
* "Leucosyrinx" Dall, 1889
* "Lienardia"
* "Liracraea" Odhner, 1924
* "Lora"
* "Lucerapex" Iredale, 1936
* "Lusitanops" F. Nordsieck, 1968
* "Maorimorpha" Powell, 1939
* "Megasurcula" Casey, 1904
* "Microdrillia" Casey, 1903
* "Mitrithara" Hedley, 1922
* "Neodrillia" Bartsch, 1943
* "Neoguraleus" Powell, 1939
* "Neopleurotomoides" Shuto, 1925
* "Nepotilla" Hedley, 1918
* "Nodotoma"
* "Oenopota"
* "Paracomitas" Powell, 1942
* "Phenatoma" Finlay, 1924
* "Philbertia"
* "Phymorhynchus" Dall, 1908
* "Pilsbryspira" Bartsch, 1950
* "Polystira" Woodring, 1928
* "Pseudotaranis" McLean, 1995
* "Pyrgospira" McLean, 1971
* "Raphitoma" Bellardi, 1847
* "Rhodopetoma" Bartsch, 1944
* "Scrinium" Hedley, 1922
* "Spirotropis" Sars, 1878
* "Splendrillia" Dell, 1956
* "Stilla" Finlay, 1926
* "Taranis" Jeffreys, 1870
* "Teretia" Norman, 1888
* "Theta" Clark, 1959
* "Tomopleura" Casey, 1904
* "Veprecula" Melvill, 1917
* "Vexitomina" Powell, 1942
* "Xanthodaphne" Powell, 1942
* "Zenepos" Finlay, 1928
* "Zonulispira" Bartsch, 1950

References

* [http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Turridae/Pages/Turridae_intro.htm]
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1