Genus Turritellopsis Sars, 1878

Museums

Regional Maps

• Turritellopsis Sars, G.O. 1878. Bidrag til kundskaben om norges arktiske fauna: I. Mollusca regionis arcticae norvegiae. Oversigt over de i norges arktiske region forekommende bløddyr. Christiania : Brøgger xiii, 466 pp., Tab. I–XVIII. [186] [Turritella acicula Stimpson, 1851, is a junior homonym of Turritella acicula Phillips, 1836. In addition, Dall argued that the specimen illustrated by Sars as Turritellopsis acicula was not conspecific with Stimpson's and he renamed it Turritellopsis stimpsoni Dall, 1919].

  Type species:

   Turritella acicula Stimpson, 1851 by monotypy.
• Kimberia Cotton, B.C. 1935. Recent Australian Viviparidae and a fossil species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5: 339-344 [30 Sept. 1935] [370].

  Type species:

   Turritella kimberi Verco, 1908 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Other Regions

Australian Antarctic Territory

General References

Allmon, W.D. 2011. Natural history of Turritelline gastropods (Cerithiodea: Turritellidae): a status report. Malacologia 54(1-2): 159-202 [161]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [140]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	TURRITELLIDAE	09-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		18-Oct-2011	MODIFIED