Belaturricula turrita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.
There are two subspecies : Belaturricula turrita multispiralis Dell, 1990 Belaturricula turrita turrita (Strebel, 1908): represented as Belaturricula turrita (Strebel, 1908)
Description
The length of the shell varies between . Distribution This marine species occurs in the Antarctic Ocean waters of the Scotia Sea and off the South Shetlands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
References
Strebel, H., 1908. Die Gastropoden (mit Ausnahme de nackten Opisthobranchier). Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Schwedischen Süd-polar-Expedition 1901–1903, 6 (1):1–111, 6 pls.
Kantor, Yuri I., Myroslaw G. Harasewych, and Nicolas Puillandre. "A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda)." Molluscan Research 36.3 (2016): 153–206.
External links Antarctic Invertebrates : Belaturricula turrita; accessed : 13 August 2011 Schiaparelli, Stefano, Anne-Nina Lörz, and Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti. "Diversity and distribution of mollusc assemblages on the Victoria Land coast and the Balleny Islands, Ross Sea, Antarctica." Antarctic Science 18.04 (2006): 615–631