Turritellidae

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Cerithioidea

Familia: Turritellidae
Subfamiliae (5 + 1†): Orectospirinae – Pareorinae – Protominae – Turritellinae – Vermiculariinae – †Omalaxinae

Genera Incertae sedis (1 + 2†): Neohaustator – †Colposigma – †Tropicolpus
Overview of genera (20 + 8†)

Archimediella – Allmonia – Armatus – Banzarecolpus – Callostracum – Colpospira – Gazameda – Maoricolpus – Mesalia – Neohaustator – Orectospira – Pareora – Protoma – Stiracolpus – Tachyrhynchus – Turritella – Turritellinella – Vermicularia – Viennella – Zeacolpus – †Batillona – †Colposigma – †Oligodia – †Omalaxis – †Sigmesalia – †Spirocolpus – †Tachyrhinchella – †Tropicolpus
Name

Turritellidae Lovén, 1847
Synonyms

Archimediellidae Starobogatov, 1982
Zariinae Gray, 1850

References

Template:Lovén, 1847

Bieler, R.; Petit, R.E. 2011: Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa, 2948: 1–103. Preview PDF
Harzhauser, M. & Landau, B. 2019. Turritellidae (Gastropoda) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea with considerations about turritellid genera. Zootaxa 4681(1): 1–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4681.1.1 Paywall Reference page.

Links

Turritellidae in the World Register of Marine Species

Turritellidae, with the common name "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small- to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the Sorbeoconcha clade.

They are filter feeders; this method of feeding is somewhat unusual among gastropod mollusks, but is very common in bivalves.
Shell description

The shells of turritellid species have whorls that are more convex and their apertures being more circular than it is in the auger shells, which are similarly high-spired. The columella is curved and the thin operculum has many horns.
Anatomy of the soft parts

These snails burrow into mud or sand, with their feet being relatively small.
A medium-sized sea snail in a genus India
A fossil shell of Turritella communis from a deep borehole in the Netherlands
Turritella terebra shell on display.
Taxonomy

Five subfamilies of this family were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):

Turritellinae Lovén, 1847 - synonyms: Zariinae Gray, 1850; Zeacolpini Marwick, 1971; Archimediellidae Starobogatov, 1982; Tachyrhynchinae Golikov, 1986
Orectospirinae Habe, 1955
Pareorinae Finlay & Marwick, 1937
Protominae Marwick, 1957
Vermiculariinae Dall, 1913 - synonym: Pseudomesaliidae mahmoud, 1955 (inv.)

Genera

Genera within this family include:

Turritellinae

Archimediella Sacco, 1895
Banzarecolpus Powell, 1957
Colpospira Donald, 1900
Gazameda Iredale, 1924
Glyptozaria Iredale, 1924
Incatella DeVries, 2007[2]
Maoricolpus Finlay, 1927
Spirocolpus Finlay, 1927
Stiracolpus Finlay, 1926
Tachyrhynchus Mörch, 1868
Turritella Lamarck, 1799 - the type genus of the family, synonyms: Torcula Gray, 1847; Proto Blainville, 1824
subgenus Haustator Montfort, 1810[3]
Zeacolpus Finlay, 1927
Zaria Gray, 1842: synonym of Turritella Lamarck, 1799

Orectospirinae

Orectospira Dall, 1925

Pareorinae

† Batillona Finlay, 1927
Pareora Marwick, 1931

Protominae

Protoma Baird, 1870 - synonym: Protomella Thiele, 1929)

Vermiculariinae

Callostracum E. A. Smith, 1909
Vermicularia Lamarck, 1799

Other

Armatus Golikov, 1986[4]
† Colposigma Finlay & Marwick, 1937[5]
Mesalia Gray, 1847[6]
Neohaustator Ida, 1952[7]
† Palmerella Allmon 1996[8]
† Tropicolpus Marwick, 1931[9]

Palaeontological locations
Main article: Turritellenplatte
Turritella from the Pleistocene of Sicily.

The Turritellenplatte of Ermingen ("Erminger Turritellenplatte" near Ulm, Germany) is situated in the northern part of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (NAFB) and is of interest for its abundance of Turritella turris gastropod shells within sedimentary deposits. The fauna of the gastropod-rich sandstone reflects mainly towards near-coastal and shallow marine conditions.[10] Petrographical and palaeontological data allow for a correlation with this area and the Burdigalian age (Lower Miocene epoch). Based on the Sr-isotope composition of shark teeth in the area, the age of the area is about 18,5 Ma.[11]

References

Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
DeVries T. J. (2007). "Cenozoic Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from southern Peru". Journal of Paleontology 81(2): 331-351. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[331:CTGFSP2.0.CO;2].
Harzhauser M. (2007). "Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific". Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280: 75-121. PDF.
Vos, C.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Armatus Golikov, 1986. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575786 on 2017-11-17
Marshall, B. (2017). Colposigma Finlay & Marwick, 1937 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828132 on 2017-11-17
Vos, C.; Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Mesalia Gray, 1847. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138613 on 2017-11-17
Bouchet, P. (2011). Neohaustator Ida, 1952. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575807 on 2017-11-17
Halder, K., & Sinha, P. (2014). "Some Eocene Cerithioids (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from Kutch, Western India, and Their Bearing on Palaeobiogeography of the Indian Subcontinent". Paleontology Journal, 2014, Article ID 673469, doi:10.1155/2014/673469.
Marshall, B. (2017). Tropicolpus. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828134 on 2017-11-17
Baier J. (2008). "Über die Tertiärbildungen im Ulmer Raum". Documenta Naturae 168: 1-32. München. ISBN 978-3-86544-168-3.

Baier J. (2008). "Ein Beitrag zur Erminger Turritellenplatte (Mittlere Schwäbische Alb, SW-Deutschland)". Jahresbericht Mitt. oberrhein. geol. Ver., N.F. 90: 9-17. Stuttgart, ISSN 0078-2947.