Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Cerithioidea

Turritellidae Lovén, 1847

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Omalaxinae Cossmann, 1916
Pareorinae H. J. Finlay & Marwick, 1937
Turritellinae Lovén, 1847

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: penhorens sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: auger shells; screw shells; tower shells; turret snails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Turmschnecken sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: キリガイダマシ sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Swedish: tornsnäckor

Literature

original description	Lovén, S. (1847). Malacozoologi. Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Förhandlingar. Volume 4, pp.175-199, pis. 2-6. (1847).
basis of record	Allmon, W. D. 2011. Natural history of turritelline gastropods (Cerithiodea: Turritellidae): a status report. Malacologia 54: 159-202.
basis of record	Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July].
additional source	Marwick, J. (1957). New Zealand genera of Turritellidae, and the species of Stiracolpus. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin. 27: 1-55.
additional source	Marwick J. (1957). Generic revision of the Turritellidae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 32(4): 144–166,.