''Heteroturris'' is a

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sea snail Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...

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mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

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Borsoniidae Borsoniidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.Bouchet, P. (2011). Borsoniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ ...

Bouchet, P. (2015). Heteroturris Powell, 1967. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432472 on 2016-03-10} This genus was previously included in the subfamily

Clathurellinae Clathurellinae was a subfamily of small to quite large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant specie ...

of the family

Clavatulidae Clavatulidae is a Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic family (biology), family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. The family is not well differentiated morphologically. Clavatulidae was raised, based on cladistic an ...

Species

Species within the genus ''Heteroturris'' include: * '' Heteroturris gemmuloides'' Sysoev, 1997 * ''

Heteroturris kanacospira ''Heteroturris'' is a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family BorsoniidaeBouchet, P. (2015). Heteroturris Powell, 1967. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Spec ...

'' Kantor, Fedosov & Puillandre, 2018 * '' Heteroturris serta'' Sysoev, 1997 * '' Heteroturris sola'' Powell, 1967

References

* Powell, Arthur William Baden,1967. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1a: The subfamily Turrinae concluded.

External links

Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273-308.
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