Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Superorder Pylopulmonata > Superfamily Pyramidelloidea > Family Pyramidellidae > Genus Odostomia

Odostomia turrita Hanley, 1844

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Odostomia*	J. Fleming, 1813	accepted genus name
*Odontostoma*	R. A. Philippi, 1853	synonym
*Odontostomia*	Jeffreys, 1839	synonym
*Odostomia (Cyclodostomia)*	Sacco, 1892	synonym
*Odostomia (Egila)*	Dall & Bartsch, 1904	synonym
*Odostomia (Odostomia)*	J. Fleming, 1813	synonym
*Ptychostomon*	Locard, 1886	synonym

Species group names

*Odostomia turrita var. nana*	J. T. Marshall, 1893	junior homonym; nom. inval.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: spitse tandhoren

Literature

original description	Hanley, S. (1844). A description of new species of Recent shells, chiefly from the collection of W. Metcalfe, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 12: 17-18.
additional source	Sneli, J.-A. (1972). Odostomia turrita found on Homarus gammarus. The Nautilus.* 86(1): 23-24.*
additional source	Landau, B.M. & Micali, P. (2021). The Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 13: Murchisonelloidea and Pyramidelloidea. Cainozoic Research. 21(2): 201-393.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Odostomia turrita Hanley, 1844. 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:141022