Galapagos Species Database
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Turritella radula
Gasterópodo, Gastropod
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth)
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
[unassigned] Caenogastropoda
Superfamily
Cerithioidea
Family
Turritellidae
Genus
Turritella
Species
radula
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Turritella mariana Dall, 1908 (Horton et al., 2021). ; Finet (2001): Was mentioned from James Island (Galapagos) by Tomlin (1927); this dubious record needs confirmation.
Origin: Native
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- Tomlin, J.R. Le B. (1927) The Mollusca of the "St. George" Expedition - I. The Pacific Coast of South America. Journal of Conchology 18: 153-170.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Turritella radula", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=10772. Accessed 6 June 2026.