Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Cerithioidea > Family Turritellidae > Subfamily Turritellinae > Genus Tachyrhynchus

Tachyrhynchus erosus (Couthouy, 1838)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tachyrhynchus*	Mörch, 1868	accepted genus name
*Tachyrynchus*	Mörch, 1868	orthographic variant

Species group names

*Tachyrhynchus spitzbergensis*	A. N. Golikov, 1986	synonym
*Turritella erosa*	Couthouy, 1838	synonym
*Turritella polaris*	Møller, 1842	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: eroded turretsnail sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Verwitterte Turmschnecke

Literature

additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Hasegawa K. (2010) A taxonomical note on the species previously recorded as "Turritella acicula stimpsoni Dall" in the northwest Pacific. Chiribotan 40(2): 69-78. [in Japanese]
additional source	Gulbin, V. V.; Chaban, E. M. (2012). Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 15-16: 5-30. [In Russian].
new combination reference	Oldroyd, I. S. (1927). The marine shells of the west coast of North America. Stanford University Publications in Geological Sciences. Volume 2, part 3, pp. 340, pls 73-108.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tachyrhynchus erosus (Couthouy, 1838). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196391