Turbinellidae

Taxobox
name = Turbinellidae


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Muricoidea
familia = Turbinellidae
familia_authority = Gray, 1854
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.
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Turbinellidae are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Sorbeoconcha.

Distribution

Species in this family are found world-wide, mostly in tropical shallow waters.

Description

Most members have massive shells with three or four prominent columellar plicae. Deep water members are rather small however, of light build, elongate- shape, the anterior canal a long slender prolongation of the body whorl, and the anterior end is spout-like.

Subfamilies

*Columbariinae Tomlin, 1928
*Tudiclinae Cossmann, 1901
*Turbinellinae Swainson, 1835
*Vasinae H.Adams & A.Adams, 1853

Genera

* "Exilioidea" Grant and Gale, 1931
* "Metzgeria" Norman, 1879
* "Ptychatractus" Stimpson, 1865
* "Surculina" Dall, 1908
* "Turbinella" Lamarck, 1799
* "Vasum" Roding, 1798

References

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* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1