Turritellidae: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Gastropoda
- Order
- Family
- Turritellidae
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Turritellidae
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Turritellidae
Turritellidae, with the common name "tower shells" or "tower snails", is a taxonomic family of small- to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the Sorbeoconcha clade.
They are filter feeders; this method of feeding is somewhat unusual among gastropod mollusks, but is very common in bivalves.
...Turritellidae in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Toringskulpe
- Chinese
- 錐螺科
- Czech
- věžulovití
- Dutch
- Penhorens
- English
- Tower Snails
- German
- Turmschnecken
- Japanese
- キリガイダマシ科
- Korean
- 나사고둥과
- Modern Greek
- Τουριτελλίδες
- Swedish
- tornsnäckor
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