Turritella (Turritella) terebra Linnaeus 1758 (turret shell)

Gastropoda - Cerithioidea - Turritellidae

Alternative combinations: Terebra (Terebra) terebra, Turbo terebra, Turritella terebra

Belongs to Turritella (Turritella) according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also Abbass 1962, Harzhauser et al. 2009, Perrilliat 1972, Shuto 1974, Squires and Saul 2006 and van den Hoek Ostende et al. 2002

Sister taxa: Turritella (Turritella) alticostata, Turritella (Turritella) bandongensis, Turritella (Turritella) bantamensis, Turritella (Turritella) bellardii, Turritella (Turritella) dibleyi, Turritella (Turritella) gradata, Turritella (Turritella) infracarinata, Turritella (Turritella) producta, Turritella (Turritella) tricarinata, Turritella (Turritella) unicarinata

Subtaxa: Turritella (Turritella) terebra kendengensis Turritella (Turritella) terebra talahabensis

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Ecology: facultatively mobile semi-infaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Pakistan (1 collection), the Philippines (1), Taiwan (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (2)

• Pliocene of Indonesia (3), the Philippines (1)

• Miocene of India (1), Indonesia (2), the Philippines (1)

Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence

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