Colpospirella Powell 1951 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Parent taxon: Turritellidae according to G. Rosenberg 2005

See also Allmon 1996

Sister taxa: Actaeonema, Caucasella, Cristispira, Eligmostoma, Haustator, Incatella, Kapalmerella, Mariacolpus, Nairiella, Omalaxinae, Orectospirinae, Palmerella, Pareorinae, Protominae, Springvaleia, Torcula, Torquesiella, Trobus, Turriola, Turritellinae, Turritellopsinae, Turritellopsis, Vermiculariinae

Subtaxa: Colpospirella algida

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Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Rio Varela, Tierra del Fuego (Quaternary of Argentina)

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