Species Turrilatirus turritus (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta turrita Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3456].
• Fasciolaria lineata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1816. Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature. Vers, coquilles, mollusques et polypiers. Paris : Agasse Part 23 pp. 1-16, pls 391-488. [7, pl. 429, figs 4a, b].
• Latirus subfuscus Tapparone-Canefri, C. 1875. Studio monografico sopra Muricidi del Mar Rosso. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 7: 569-630, pl. 1 [50].

 

Generic Combinations

• Turrilatirus turritus (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Vermeij, G.J. & Snyder, M.A. 2006. Shell characters and taxonomy of Latirus and related Fasciolariid groups. Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 413-424 [419]
• Latirus turritus (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [72, pl. 11, fig. 17]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

 

General References

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [32]

Snyder, M.A. 2003. Catalogue of the marine gastropod family Fasciolariidae. Philadelphia : Scientific Publications Department in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Special publication no. 21, pp. 1-431. [212]

Vermeij, G.J. & Snyder, M.A. 2006. Shell characters and taxonomy of Latirus and related Fasciolariid groups. Journal of Molluscan Studies 72: 413-424 [419]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [72, pl. 11, fig. 17]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [135, pl. 412] (Turreted Latirus)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [146, pl. 147] (Tower Latirus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
06-Jul-2023	BUCCINOIDEA	06-Jul-2023	MOVED
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	09-Aug-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		31-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED