Florida Wormsnails and Boringsnails: Family Turritellida
The Florida Wormsnail is one of two types of boring snails. The ios resembles a corkscrew which is used for drilling or boring.
Florida Wormsnail (S. Hutchinson Island- January 2021)
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Turritellidae
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Lovén, 1847
Genera
See text: Diversity[1]
21 extant genera
125 extant species
Synonyms
Archimediellidae Starobogatov, 1982
Zariinae Gray, 1850
Turritellidae, common name the "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.
These snails are filter feeders. This method of feeding is somewhat unusual among gastropod mollusks, but is very common in bivalves.
Shell description
The shells of turritellid species have whorls that are more convex and an aperture which is more circular than it is in the auger shells which are similarly high-spired. The columella is curved and the thin operculum is horny.
Anatomy of the soft parts
These snails burrow into mud or sand. The foot is relatively small.
A medium-sized sea snail in a genus India
A fossil shell of Turritella communis from a deep borehole in the Netherlands
Turritella terebra shell on display.
Taxonomy
The following five subfamilies were recognized in the taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi (2005):
Turritellinae Lovén, 1847 - synonyms: Zariinae Gray, 1850; Zeacolpini Marwick, 1971; Archimediellidae Starobogatov, 1982; Tachyrhynchinae Golikov, 1986
Orectospirinae Habe, 1955
Pareorinae Finlay & Marwick, 1937
Protominae Marwick, 1957
Vermiculariinae Dall, 1913 - synonym: Pseudomesaliidae mahmoud, 1955 (inv.)
Genera
Genera within the family Turritellidae include:
Turritellinae
Archimediella Sacco, 1895
Banzarecolpus Powell, 1957
Colpospira Donald, 1900
Gazameda Iredale, 1924
Glyptozaria Iredale, 1924
Incatella DeVries, 2007[2]
Maoricolpus Finlay, 1927
Spirocolpus Finlay, 1927
Stiracolpus Finlay, 1926
Tachyrhynchus Mörch, 1868
Turritella Lamarck, 1799 - the type genus of the family, synonyms: Torcula Gray, 1847; Proto Blainville, 1824
subgenus Haustator Montfort, 1810[3]
Zeacolpus Finlay, 1927
Zaria Gray, 1842: synonym of Turritella Lamarck, 1799
Orectospirinae
Orectospira Dall, 1925
Pareorinae
† Batillona Finlay, 1927
Pareora Marwick, 1931
Protominae
Protoma Baird, 1870 -( synonym: Protomella Thiele, 1929)
Vermiculariinae
Callostracum E. A. Smith, 1909
Vermicularia Lamarck, 1799
family ?
Armatus Golikov, 1986[4]
† Colposigma Finlay & Marwick, 1937[5]
Mesalia Gray, 1847[6]
Neohaustator Ida, 1952[7]
† Palmerella Allmon 1996[8]
† Tropicolpus Marwick, 1931[9]
Palaeontological locations
Turritella from the Pleistocene of Sicily.
The Turritellenplatte of Ermingen ("Erminger Turritellenplatte" near Ulm, Germany) is situated in the northern part of the North Alpine Foreland Basin (NAFB) and is famous for its abundance of Turritella turris gastropod shells within sedimentary deposits. The fauna of this gastropod-rich sandstone reflects mainly near-coastal and shallow marine conditions.[10] Petrographical and palaeontological data allow a correlation of Turritellenplatte of Ermingen with Burdigalian (Lower Miocene). Sr-isotope composition of shark teeth suggests an age of about 18,5 Ma for the Turritellenplatte of Ermingen.[11]
References
Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
DeVries T. J. (2007). "Cenozoic Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from southern Peru". Journal of Paleontology 81(2): 331-351. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2007)81[331:CTGFSP]2.0.CO;2.
Harzhauser M. (2007). "Oligocene and Aquitanian gastropod faunas from the Sultanate of Oman and their biogeographic implications for the western Indo-Pacific". Palaeontographica Abteilung A 280: 75-121. PDF.
Vos, C.; Bouchet, P. (2014). Armatus Golikov, 1986. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575786 on 2017-11-17
Marshall, B. (2017). Colposigma Finlay & Marwick, 1937 †. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828132 on 2017-11-17
Vos, C.; Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Mesalia Gray, 1847. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138613 on 2017-11-17
Bouchet, P. (2011). Neohaustator Ida, 1952. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575807 on 2017-11-17
Halder, K., & Sinha, P. (2014). "Some Eocene Cerithioids (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from Kutch, Western India, and Their Bearing on Palaeobiogeography of the Indian Subcontinent". Paleontology Journal, 2014, Article ID 673469, doi:10.1155/2014/673469.
Marshall, B. (2017). Tropicolpus. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=828134 on 2017-11-17
Baier J. (2008). "Über die Tertiärbildungen im Ulmer Raum". Documenta Naturae 168: 1-32. München. ISBN 978-3-86544-168-3.
Baier J. (2008). "Ein Beitrag zur Erminger Turritellenplatte (Mittlere Schwäbische Alb, SW-Deutschland)". Jahresbericht Mitt. oberrhein. geol. Ver., N.F. 90: 9-17. Stuttgart, ISSN 0078-2947.
Further reading
Mayr H. (1985). A Guide to Fossils. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. (English translation 1992).
Powell A. W. B. (1979). New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand, ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
Kiel S. (2003) New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa); Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Turritellidae.
"Turritellidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Selachian fauna of Turritellenplatte: Abstract of Baier et al. 2004
Age and Sedimentpetrography of Turritellenplatte: Abstract of Baier 2008
Turritelidae species database
Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California; United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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Vermicularia knorrii
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Subfamily: Vermiculariinae
Genus: Vermicularia
Species: V. knorrii
Binomial name
Vermicularia knorrii (Deshayes, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
Vermetus knorrii Deshaayes, 1843
Vermicularia knorrii, common name Florida worm snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.[1]
Description
The shell of this species can reaches a length of 20 – 80 mm.[2] When the shell is intact, the apex is pure white, somewhat translucent, and tightly coiled into a "Turritella" shape. However, the subsequent whorls are brown, and they are loosely and irregular coiled, such that the whorls do not touch.
Distribution
This species is found in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico (being known from the Yucatan, Florida, Bermuda, Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.)
Habitat
The minimum recorded depth for this species is 2 m; the maximum recorded depth is 110 m.[2]
References
Vermicularia knorrii (Deshayes, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLOS One 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
External links
"Vermicularia knorrii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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