WoRMS name details
Pleurotoma turbinelloides G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 †
1439527 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439527)
unaccepted > junior homonym (junior primary homonymof P. turbinelloides Reeve, 1846)
Species
Pleurotoma Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Turris Batsch, 1789
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 258, pl. 4, fig. 53 [details]
page(s): 258, pl. 4, fig. 53 [details]
Holotype NHMUK NHM-G26398, geounit Chile
Holotype NHMUK NHM-G26398, geounit Chile [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurotoma turbinelloides G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439527 on 2025-10-09
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Nomenclature
original description
Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Appendix to part II. Descriptions of Tertiary fossil shells from South America. In: Darwin, C. Geological Observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836. Smith, Elder & Co., London. pp 249-264, pls 2-5. , available online at http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F273&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
page(s): 258, pl. 4, fig. 53 [details]
basis of record Griffin, M.; Nielsen, S. N. (2008). A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d'Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854). <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 6(3): 251-316., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002374
page(s): 297, pl. 20, fig. 24-27 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 258, pl. 4, fig. 53 [details]
basis of record Griffin, M.; Nielsen, S. N. (2008). A revision of the type specimens of Tertiary molluscs from Chile and Argentina described by d'Orbigny (1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854). <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 6(3): 251-316., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s1477201907002374
page(s): 297, pl. 20, fig. 24-27 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details] 
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype NHMUK NHM-G26398, geounit Chile [details]
