''Spirocolpus'' is a
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sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the
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Turritellidae
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.
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.
[MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Spirocolpus Finlay, 1926 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818566 on 2019-11-04]
Species
Species within the genus ''Spirocolpus'' include:
* † ''
Spirocolpus carsoni''
Finlay & Marwick, 1937
* † ''
Spirocolpus meadii''
(Baily, 1855) [ Kiel S. (2003) ''New taxonomic data for the gastropod fauna of the Umzamba Formation (Santonian–Campanian, South Africa)''; Cretaceous Research 24 (2003) 449–475 ]
* † ''
Spirocolpus rudis''
(P. Marshall, 1919)
* † ''
Spirocolpus tophinus''
(Marwick, 1926)
* † ''
Spirocolpus waihaoensis''
(Marwick, 1924)
References
External links
Finlay H.J. (1926). A further commentary on New Zealand molluscan systematics. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 57: 320-485, pls 18-23
Turritellidae
Taxa named by Harold John Finlay
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