Home Taxonomy Distribution Miscellaneous

Taxonomy > Turritellidae > Caviturritella
< Previous species - Next species > (within the family)

Caviturritella leucostoma (Valenciennes, 1842)

  • Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 392
  • Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 161
  • Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 49
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres Martínez (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 24
  • Gurgo Salice & Cáceres Martínez (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 24 [as Turritella anactor]
  • Friend et al. (2023) E., Portell, R. W. & Allmon, W. D. Systematics and phylogeny of Plio-Pleistocene species of Turritellidae (Gastropoda) from Florida and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. - p. 43

Statistics

Frequencyvery common - 75 localities (36.18 %)
Sediment18 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment)

Size and comments

The indicated maximum length of 127mm is exceeded by beach finds.

Images

Length 77.3mm.

Length 77.3mm.

Taxonomy > Turritellidae > Caviturritella
< Previous species - Next species > (within the family)


30.09.2026 • Version 13.0