Turritriton

Turritriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae.^[2] This is often still regarded merely as a subgenus of the genus Cymatium.

Turritriton
Dorsal view of a shell of Turritriton tabulatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Turritriton Dall, 1904[1]
Type species
Turritriton gibbosus (Broderip, 1833)
Synonyms[2]
Cabestana (Turritriton) Dall, 1904 Cymatium (Turritriton) Dall, 1904 Particymatium Iredale, 1936 Tritoniscus Dall, 1904

Description

(Description as Tritoniscus) Forms with subturbinate body with flat-topped turriculate whorls, a short spire and siphonal canal, subumbilicate, with a single large and heavy terminal varix and narrow callus on the body.^[3]

Distribution

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

Species

The genus Turritriton contains the following species:

• Turritriton fittkaui (Parth, 1991)
• Turritriton gibbosus (Broderip, 1833) - type species^[4]
• † Turritriton grundensis (R. Hoernes & Auinger, 1884)
• Turritriton kobelti (Von Maltzan, 1884)^[5]
• Turritriton labiosus (Wood, 1828)^[6]
• Turritriton pharcida (Dall, 1889)
• Turritriton tenuiliratus (Lischke, 1873) ^[7]