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Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata

Gastropoda - Turritellidae

Taxonomy
Turritella perattenuata was named by Heilprin (1886) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Pliocene; Caribbean-Florida.]. It is not a trace fossil. It is the type species of Bactrospira.

It was recombined as Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata by Perrilliat (1987) and Landau and Marques da Silva (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1886Turritella perattenuata Heilprin
1925Turritella perattenuata Mansfield p. 55
1929Turritella perattenuata Anderson p. 119
1987Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata Perrilliat p. 11
2010Turritella (Bactrospira) perattenuata Landau and Marques da Silva p. 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
RankNameAuthor
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyCerithioidea(Férussac 1819)
familyTurritellidaeLovén 1847
subfamilyTurritellinaeLovén 1847
genusTurritellaLamarck 1799
subgenusBactrospira(Cossmann 1912)
speciesperattenuata(Heilprin 1886)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Turritella perattenuata praecellens Pilsbry and Brown 1917
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available