Turritriton

Taxobox
name = "Turritriton"
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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Tonnoidea
familia = Ranellidae
genus = "Turritriton"
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subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

Turritriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the family commonly known as the tritons.

Distribution

Tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific oceans, western America, and the Caribbean.

Description

The shell is solid, prominently variced, axially costate between, and the whole overridden by a few strong, medially grooved, prominent spiral cords. The protoconch is tall, narrow, polygyrate and smooth. The siphonal canal is moderately long and recurved. The aperture is small. The outer lip is heavily variced externally, and dentate within, and the inner lip has a parietal tubercle and several columella plicae.

pecies in the genus "Turritriton"

* "Turritriton gibbosum"
* "Turritriton klenei"
* "Turritriton labiosus" (Wood, 1828)
* "Turritriton lineatum"
* "Turritriton loebbeckii"
* "Turritriton suroabditus"
* "Turritriton tabulatus exaratus" (Reeve, 1844)

External links

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* [http://zipcodezoo.com/Key/Turritriton_Genus.asp ZipCodeZoo]