Turbinellidae
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Turbinellidae are a family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...

s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...

 gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda is an unranked taxonomic clade of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks. For many years prior to 2005 Neogastropoda was an order.- Description :...

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Distribution

Species in this family are found world-wide, mostly in tropical shallow waters but some in deep waters.

Subfamilies

  • Columbariinae  Tomlin, 1928
  • Tudiclinae  Cossmann, 1901
  • Turbinellinae
    Turbinellinae
    Turbinellinae, are a subfamily of large deepwater sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae. This subfamily is in the family Turbinellidae within the clade Neogastropoda .This is a small subfamily with only three genera and some 10 extant species...

      Swainson, 1835
  • Vasinae
    Vasinae
    Vasinae, common name the vase snails or vase shells, are a taxonomic subfamily of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the family Turbinellidae.-Shell description:...

      H.Adams & A.Adams, 1853

Genera

Genera within the family Turbinellidae include:
  • Columbarium Martens, 1881
  • Coluzea
    Coluzea
    Coluzea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Coluzea include:* Coluzea aapta Harasewych, 1986* Coluzea altocanalis Dell, 1956...

    Finlay, 1926
  • Cryptofusus
    Cryptofusus
    Cryptofusus is a monospecific genus of large sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae. -External links:*...

    Beu, 2011
  • Enigmavasum
    Enigmavasum
    Enigmavasum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Enigmavasum include:* Enigmavasum enigmaticum Poppe, & Tagaro, 2005...

    Poppe & Tagaro, 2005
  • Eovasum Douville, 1920 (Extinct)
  • Exilioidea
    Exilioidea
    Exilioidea is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ptychatractidae.-Species:Species within the genus Exilioidea include:* Exilioidea atlantica Bouchet & Warén, 1988* Exilioidea costulata Bouchet et Warén, 1988...

    Grant
    Ulysses S. Grant IV
    Ulysses S. Grant IV , was the son of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant. He was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast...

     and Gale, 1931
  • Fulgurofusus
    Fulgurofusus
    Fulgurofusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Fulgurofusus include:* Fulgurofusus aequilonius Sysoev, 2000* Fulgurofusus atlantis...

    Grabau, 1904
  • Fustifusus
    Fustifusus
    Fustifusus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Fustifusus include:* Fustifusus pinicola...

    Harasewych, 1991
  • Histricosceptrum
    Histricosceptrum
    Histricosceptrum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Histricosceptrum include:* Histricosceptrum atlantis...

    Darragh, 1969
  • Hystrivasum Olsson and Petit, 1964 (Extinct)
  • Metzgeria
    Metzgeria (gastropod)
    Metzgeria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ptychatractidae.-Species:Species within the genus Metzgeria include:* Metzgeria alba * Metzgeria californica Dall, 1903...

    Norman, 1879
  • Peristarium
    Peristarium
    Peristarium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Peristarium include:* Peristarium aurora * Peristarium electra...

    Bayer, 1971
  • Ptychatractus
    Ptychatractus
    Ptychatractus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Ptychatractidae.-Species:Species within the genus Ptychatractus include:* Ptychatractus ligatus...

    Stimpson, 1865
  • Surculina Dall
    W. H. Dall
    William Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...

    , 1908
  • Syrinx
    Syrinx aruanus
    Syrinx aruanus, common name the Australian trumpet or false trumpet, is a species of extremely large sea snail measuring up to 91 cm long and weighing up to 18 kg...

    Röding
    Peter Friedrich Röding
    Peter Friedrich Röding was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.Many of Röding's descriptions are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister...

    , 1798
  • Tudicla Röding, 1798
  • Tudivasum
    Tudivasum
    Tudivasum is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Vasinae, the vase shells, within the family Turbinellidae.-Species:Species within the genus Tudivasum include:*Tudivasum armigerum*Tudivasum inerme...

    Rosenberg & Petit, 1987
  • Turbinella
    Turbinella
    Turbinella is a genus of large sea snails with a gill and an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turbinellidae. These species are sometimes known as "chanks" or "chank shells"...

    Lamarck, 1799
  • Vasum
    Vasum
    Vasum, common name the vase snails or vase shells, is a genus of mostly rather large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks within the family Turbinellidae.-Shell description:...

    Roding, 1798

Genera brought into synonymy :
  • Buccinella Perry, 1811 : synonym of Turbinella Lamarck, 1799
  • Cynodonta Schumacher, 1817 : synonym of Vasum Röding, 1798
  • Tudicula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864 : synonym of Tudivasum Rosenberg & Petit, 1987
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