Turritriton
Genus of gastropods
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Turritriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae.[2] This is often still regarded merely as a subgenus of the genus Cymatium.
| Turritriton | |
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| Dorsal view of a shell of Turritriton tabulatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cymatiidae |
| Genus: | Turritriton Dall, 1904[1] |
| Type species | |
| Turritriton gibbosus (Broderip, 1833) | |
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Description
(Description as Tritoniscus) Forms with subturbinate body with flat-topped turriculate whorls, a short spire and siphonal canal, subumbilicate, with a single large and heavy terminal varix and narrow callus on the body.[3]
Distribution
This genus occurs in tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific Oceans, western America, and the Caribbean Sea.
Species
The genus Turritriton contains the following species:
- Turritriton fittkaui (Parth, 1991)
- Turritriton gibbosus (Broderip, 1833) - type species[4]
- † Turritriton grundensis (R. Hoernes & Auinger, 1884)
- Turritriton kobelti (Von Maltzan, 1884)[5]
- Turritriton labiosus (Wood, 1828)[6]
- Turritriton pharcida (Dall, 1889)
- Turritriton tenuiliratus (Lischke, 1873) [7]
