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Turritriton

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Kingdom
  
Superfamily
  
Tonnoidea

Subfamily
  
Cymatiinae

Higher classification
  
Ranellidae

Phylum
  
Family
  
Ranellidae

Scientific name
  
Turritriton

Rank
  
Genus


Lower classifications
  
Turritriton labiosus, Turritriton tabulatus

Turritriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the family commonly known as the tritons.

Contents

This is often still regarded merely as a subgenus of the genus Cymatium.

Distribution

This genus occurs in tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific Oceans, western America, and the Caribbean Sea.

Species

Species in the genus Turritriton include:

  • Turritriton gibbosus (Broderip, 1833) - type species
  • Turritriton klenei
  • Turritriton kobelti (Von Maltzan, 1884)
  • Turritriton labiosus (Wood, 1828)
  • Turritriton lineatum
  • Turritriton loebbeckii
  • Turritriton suroabditus
  • Turritriton tabulatus
  • Turritriton tabulatus exaratus (Reeve, 1844)
  • Turritriton tenuiliratus (Lischke, 1873)
  • Species brought into synonymy
  • Turritriton fittkaui (Parth, 1991): synonym of Turritriton tenuiliratus (Lischke, 1873)
  • References

    Turritriton Wikipedia


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