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Turritellidae

Synonyms: Archimediellidae; Pareoridae

Wikipedia Abstract

Turritellidae, common name the "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha. These snails are filter feeders. This method of feeding is somewhat unusual among gastropod mollusks, but is very common in bivalves.
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Genus

Allmonia (9)
Archimediella (11)
Arcotia (1)
Armatus (1)
Asiella (1)
Banzarecolpus (2)
Batillona (1)
Callostracum (1)
Calvertitella (1)
Caucasella (1)
Colposigma (6)
Colpospira (27)
Costacolpus (3)
Cristispira (4)
Eligmostoma (4)
Gazameda (11)
Hataiella (2)
Haustator (37)
Heideckernema (1)
Helminthia (6)
Incatella (6)
Kapalmerella (2)
Laxispira (3)
Maoricolpus (New Zealand screw shells) (10)
Maoriculpus (1)
Mariacolpus (5)
Mesalia (37)
Motyris (1)
Nairiella (3)
Neohaustator (4)
Nodosella (1)
Oligodia (4)
Omalaxis (10)
Orectospira (3)
Pareora (4)
Peyrotia (3)
Protoma (8)
Ptychidia (6)
Roamerella (1)
Sigmesalia (27)
Spirocolpus (4)
Springvaleia (1)
Stiracolpus (12)
Tachyrhynchus (Little horn caecum) (15)
Torquesia (19)
Torquesiella (2)
Tropicolpus (14)
Turritella (492)
Turritellinella (2)
Vermicularia (33)
Viennella (2)
Woodsalia (1)
Zeacolpus (tower shells) (23)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0