Turritella is a genus of medium-sized sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turritellidae.
Image: Turritella shells in Vienna Natural History Museum IZE 2290a
Image: Turritellatricarinata
A medium sized sea snail in a genus India
Numerous shells of a Turritella species washed up on the beach at Playa Grande, Costa Rica
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.
Turritellidae
A medium-sized sea snail in a genus India
A fossil shell of Turritella communis from a deep borehole in the Netherlands
Turritella terebra shell on display.