North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Turritella communis Risso, 1826

AphiaID

141872 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141872)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Turritellinella tricarinata (Brocchi, 1814)

Rank

Species

Parent

Turritella Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Turritella communis Risso, 1826

Synonymised names

Turritella britannica Monterosato, 1890 · unaccepted (Synonym)

Turritella communis var. extensa Coen, 1933 · unaccepted (Synonym (infraspecific variation))

Turritella communis var. laeviuscula Coen, 1914 · unaccepted > junior homonym (preoccupied infraspecific...)

preoccupied infraspecific epithet. Not Turritella laeviuscula J. de C. Sowerby, 1832; nec Turritella turris var. laeviuscula Sacco, 1895.

Turritella communis var. soluta Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884 · unaccepted (Invalid: Unavailable under Art....)

Invalid: Unavailable under Art. 1.3.2. description based on teratological specimens

Turritella linnaei Deshayes, 1835 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Turritella mediterranea Monterosato, 1890 · unaccepted (synonym)

Turritella sabauda Risso, 1826 · unaccepted (dubious synonym)

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Variety Turritella communis var. extensa Coen, 1933 accepted as Turritella communis Risso, 1826 accepted as Turritellinella tricarinata (Brocchi, 1814) (Synonym (infraspecific variation))
Variety Turritella communis var. laeviuscula Coen, 1914 accepted as Turritella communis Risso, 1826 accepted as Turritellinella tricarinata (Brocchi, 1814) (unaccepted > junior homonym, preoccupied infraspecific epithet. Not Turritella laeviuscula J. de C. Sowerby, 1832; nec Turritella turris var. laeviuscula Sacco, 1895.)
Variety Turritella communis var. soluta Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884 accepted as Turritella communis Risso, 1826 accepted as Turritellinella tricarinata (Brocchi, 1814) (Invalid: Unavailable under Art. 1.3.2. description based on teratological specimens)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Risso, A. (1826 - 1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. [Natural history of the main productions of Southern Europe and particularly those of the area around Nice and the Maritime Alps. In: Levrault, F.G. (ed.). vol. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons / vol. 4. Mollusques. Annélides / vol. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes]. 400 pp., 13 pls. [volumes 1-5., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58984
page(s): 106; pl. 4 fig. 37 [details]

Type data

Note Alpes-Maritimes, France

Type locality Alpes-Maritimes, France [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Turritella communis Risso, 1826. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141872 on 2026-09-10

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Turritella communis Risso, 1826. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141872 on 2026-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

2013-01-06 11:08:41Z

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Vos, Chris

2019-10-07 22:21:20Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Risso, A. (1826 - 1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. [Natural history of the main productions of Southern Europe and particularly those of the area around Nice and the Maritime Alps. In: Levrault, F.G. (ed.). vol. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons / vol. 4. Mollusques. Annélides / vol. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes]. 400 pp., 13 pls. [volumes 1-5., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58984
page(s): 106; pl. 4 fig. 37 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Arnaud, P. M. (1978). Révision des taxa malacologiques méditerranéens introduits par Antoine Risso. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice. 5: 101-150, 4 pls., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20231224042254/http://paleopolis.rediris.es/benthos/TaP/Arnaud-1977.pdf
page(s): p. 112. [details] Available for editors

additional source Ayres, B. (1916). Catálogo das Conchas Exóticas existentes no Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra. Volume 1, pp. 386., available online at https://ia800808.us.archive.org/17/items/catalogodasconch11916univ/catalogodasconch11916univ.pdf
page(s): p. 354, n. 866-A. [details]

additional source De Franchis, F. (1894). Descrizione comparativa dei Molluschi postpliocenici del bacino di Galatina. Bullettino della Societa Malacologica Italiana. 19:7-222, pls 1-3.
page(s): p. 166-170, n. 15.; note: As pliocene - post-Pliocene [details]

additional source Hammer, C. (1775) Forsog til en Norsk Natur-Historie. pp. 248 Kiobenhavn (Sander) , available online at http://books.google.be/books?id=u5U5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Forsog+til+en+Norsk+Natur-Historie&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=YV3oULH4J-iG0AXDq4GQAw&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA
page(s): 211; note: Misapplication [details]

additional source Linnaeus, C. (1761). Fauna Suecica sistens Animalia Sueciae Regni: Distributa per Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Differentiis Specierum, Synonymis Auctorum, Nominibus Incolarum, Locis Natalium, [The Swedish Fauna containing the Animals of the Kingdom of Sweden: Distributed by Classes, Orders, Genera, Species, with Differences of Species, Synonyms of Authors, Names of Inhabitants, Places of Birth,]Descriptionibus insectorum. Editio altera, auctior. Stockholmiae, Stockhom, Sweden. 48:1-578. [Copepoda Monoculus, :497-499]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100333
page(s): 525; note: Misapplication [details]

additional source Mayer, C. (1871). Découverte des couches à Congéries dans le bassin du Rhône. Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich. 16: 185-203., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8424806
page(s): p. 192, n. 35; p. 196, n. 49. [details]

additional source Nardo, G.D. (1847). Sinonimia Moderna delle Specie Regisrate nell'Opera Intitolata: Descrizione de'Crostacei, de'Testacei e de'Pesci che Abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto Rappressentati in Figure, a Chiaro-scuro ed a Colori dall'Abate Stefano Chiereghini Ven. Clodiense. Antonelli: Venezia. [According to Carlo Froglia, the Prospetto and the Sinonimia were published simultaneously; the Sinonimia is here considered to have priority.]., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=wU09AAAAYAAJ
page(s): p. 80.; note: After Turbo ungulinus of Chiereghini MS. [details]

additional source Pennant, T. (1777). British Zoology, vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. London. i-viii, 1-154, pls. 1-93., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127011
page(s): 112; note: Misapplication [details]

additional source Pennant, Thomas. (1812). British Zoology. A new edition in four volumes. vol IV. Class V. Crustacea. Class VI. Vermes. Wilkie & Robinson. London. xvi+379 pp. 95 pls., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34933712
page(s): 308; note: Misapplication [details]

additional source Quitzow, W. (1922). Die fauna des marinen Miocäns von Alt-Gleiwitz. Ein Beitrag zur Altersfrage des oberschlesischen Tertiärs. Jahrbuch des Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin. 41(2):1-51., available online at https://pbc.gda.pl/dlibra/publication/60083
page(s): p. 16-17.; note: Misapplication. [details]

additional source Reeve, L. A. (1849). Monograph of the genus Turritella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 5, pl. 1-11 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1-8: May, 1849; 9-11: June 1849]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8967277
page(s): Pl. 7, sp. 35 [details]

additional source Requien, E. (1848). Catalogue des coquilles de l'Île de Corse. Avignon: Seguin. v-xii, 13-109 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59044288
page(s): p. 71, n. 512. [details]

biology source Graham, A. (1938). On a ciliary process of food-collecting in the gastropod Turritella communis Risso. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Series A, Volume 108, part 3, pp. 453-463, 3 text figs. [Offprint published 28 September 1938]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1938.tb00034.x
page(s): p. 453-463. [details]

biology source Pérez, C. (1924). Le complexe ethologique de la Turritelle et du Phascolion strombi. Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France. Volume 49, pp. 341-343., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54459014/f376.item
page(s): p. 341-343.; note: Includes the original description of a parasite, and notes on other marine organisms using the shells of Turritella communis. [details]

biology source Randles, W. B. (1900). On the anatomy of Turritella communis, Risso. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. Vol. 4, pp. 56-65, pl. 6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15797978
page(s): p. 56-65, pl. 6. [details]

biology source Randles, W. B. (1902). On the presence of a Crystalline style and style-sac in Turritella communis. Anatomischer Anzeiger. Volume 21. pp. 200-203, 3 text figs., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11890624
page(s): p. 200-203. [details]