Turritella sanguinea

Turritella sanguinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Turritellidae
Subfamily: Turritellinae
Genus: Turritella
Species: T. sanguinea
Binomial name
Turritella sanguinea
Reeve, 1849[1]

Turritella sanguinea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.[2]

Description

It was probably 5 or 4 inches long.

Distribution

It probably lived in the Pacific Ocean.

References


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