MolluscaBase name details
Turritella alturana Spieker, 1922 †
1738918 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1738918)
unaccepted > superseded rank
Species
Turritella plana E. T. Nelson, 1870 † · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior primary homonym of...)
junior primary homonym of Turritella plana McCoy, 1846 and Turritella plana Brinkhorst, 1861. Turritella alturana Spieker, 1922 is a replacement name.
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
(of Turritella plana E. T. Nelson, 1870 †) Nelson, E. T. (1870). On the molluscan fauna of the later Tertiary of Peru. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science.</em> 2: 186-206, pls 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7502942
page(s): 188 [details]
page(s): 188 [details]
Type locality contained in Peru
type locality contained in Peru [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Nomenclature Nom. nov. pro Turritella plana E. T. Nelson, 1870 (non- McCoy, 1846; Binkhorst, 1861)
Nomenclature Nom. nov. pro Turritella plana E. T. Nelson, 1870 (non- McCoy, 1846; Binkhorst, 1861) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Turritella alturana Spieker, 1922 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1738918 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Turritella plana E. T. Nelson, 1870 †) Nelson, E. T. (1870). On the molluscan fauna of the later Tertiary of Peru. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science.</em> 2: 186-206, pls 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7502942
page(s): 188 [details]
page(s): 188 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Nom. nov. pro Turritella plana E. T. Nelson, 1870 (non- McCoy, 1846; Binkhorst, 1861) [details]
