WoRMS taxon details
Turritella cooperi P. P. Carpenter, 1864
580452 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:580452)
accepted
Species
Turritella cooperi fernandoensis R. Arnold, 1907 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Turritella cooperi var. fernandoensis R. Arnold, 1907 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Turritella cooperi var. nova Nomland, 1916 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Turritella jewettii P. P. Carpenter, 1864 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (probable synonym)
Turritella nova Nomland, 1916 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Turritella orthosymmetrica S. S. Berry, 1953 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651, https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit/page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): 655 [details]
page(s): 655 [details]
Note Van Winkle-Palmer (1958:169) stated that no...
Type material Van Winkle-Palmer (1958:169) stated that no holotype was found, and no other original material than those specimens present in the University of California is known.
Carpenter (1864:610) mentions: "Other series, though not so complete, have since been received in safety; and through the liberality of the Californian Survey and of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as through the energy and kindness of Dr. Cooper, they are already being distributed to the Cumingian Collection, the British Museum, the museums at Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia, Albany, Montreal, &c., as well as to the collections of working naturalists."
Recently, a glass tablet holding a specimen of T. cooperi was detected in the General Collection at NHMUK by the present editor, which has been donated to the Museum by the Smithsonian in 1865 (information taken from the Registration book at NHMUK 02/05/2014). As the locality on the card is the same as the type locality mentioned in the original description (San Pedro), this sample (NHMUK Reg No 1865.12.13.88) could be considered a syntype. Confirmation through examination of documentation of the gift is to follow shortly. [details]
Carpenter (1864:610) mentions: "Other series, though not so complete, have since been received in safety; and through the liberality of the Californian Survey and of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as through the energy and kindness of Dr. Cooper, they are already being distributed to the Cumingian Collection, the British Museum, the museums at Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia, Albany, Montreal, &c., as well as to the collections of working naturalists."
Recently, a glass tablet holding a specimen of T. cooperi was detected in the General Collection at NHMUK by the present editor, which has been donated to the Museum by the Smithsonian in 1865 (information taken from the Registration book at NHMUK 02/05/2014). As the locality on the card is the same as the type locality mentioned in the original description (San Pedro), this sample (NHMUK Reg No 1865.12.13.88) could be considered a syntype. Confirmation through examination of documentation of the gift is to follow shortly. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Turritella cooperi P. P. Carpenter, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=580452 on 2026-09-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651, https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit/page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): 655 [details]
original description (of Turritella cooperi var. fernandoensis R. Arnold, 1907 †) Arnold R. (1907). New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil bearing Tertiary formations of southern California. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 32: 525-546., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.32-1545.525
page(s): p. 538-539, pl. 51, fig. 13. [details]
original description (of Turritella orthosymmetrica S. S. Berry, 1953) Berry S.S. (1953). Notices of new West American marine Mollusca. <em>Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 11(16): 405-428, pls 28-29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5714916
page(s): 412 [details]
original description (of Turritella jewettii P. P. Carpenter, 1864) Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651, https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit/page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): p. 612, n. 86; 655, n. 325. [details]
original description (of Turritella nova Nomland, 1916 †) Nomland, J.O. (1916) Fauna from the Lower Pliocene at Jacalitos Creek and Waltham Canyon, Fresno County, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 9, 199–214., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800206043
page(s): p. 208, pl. 11, fig. 3. [details]
page(s): 655 [details]
original description (of Turritella cooperi var. fernandoensis R. Arnold, 1907 †) Arnold R. (1907). New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil bearing Tertiary formations of southern California. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 32: 525-546., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.32-1545.525
page(s): p. 538-539, pl. 51, fig. 13. [details]
original description (of Turritella orthosymmetrica S. S. Berry, 1953) Berry S.S. (1953). Notices of new West American marine Mollusca. <em>Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 11(16): 405-428, pls 28-29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5714916
page(s): 412 [details]
original description (of Turritella jewettii P. P. Carpenter, 1864) Carpenter, P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. <em>Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.</em> (1863) 33: 517-686., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29370651, https://archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit/page/n3/mode/2up
page(s): p. 612, n. 86; 655, n. 325. [details]
original description (of Turritella nova Nomland, 1916 †) Nomland, J.O. (1916) Fauna from the Lower Pliocene at Jacalitos Creek and Waltham Canyon, Fresno County, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology, 9, 199–214., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800206043
page(s): p. 208, pl. 11, fig. 3. [details]
Other
additional source
Arnold R. (1907). New and characteristic species of fossil mollusks from the oil bearing Tertiary formations of southern California. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 32: 525-546., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.32-1545.525
page(s): p. 546 (index), pl. 51, fig. 14. [details]
additional source Ayres, B. (1916). Catálogo das Conchas Exóticas existentes no Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra. Volume 1, pp. 386., available online at https://ia800808.us.archive.org/17/items/catalogodasconch11916univ/catalogodasconch11916univ.pdf
page(s): p. 354, n. 869-A. [details]
additional source Keen, A. M.; Bentson, H. (1944). Checklist of California Tertiary marine Mollusca. <em>Geological Society of America Special Papers.</em> 56: i-viii + 1-280., available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE56-p1
page(s): p. 213. [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Blake, J.A., & P.H. Scott (eds.), <i>Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda.</i> Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=MMdJAQAAIAAJ [details]
additional source Merriam, C. W. (1941). Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast Region of North America. <em>University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences.</em> Volume 26, No. 1, pp. 1-214, plates 1-41; 19 figures in text, 1 map., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822023465453;view=1up;seq=9
page(s): p. 117-119, pl. 33, figs 1-4; pl. 34, figs 9, 12-16; pl. 35, figs 14, 15. [details]
additional source Oldroyd, I. S. (1927). The marine shells of the west coast of North America. <em>Stanford University Publications in Geological Sciences.</em> Volume 2, part 3, pp. 340, pls 73-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58082301
page(s): p. 55. [details]
additional source Palmer, K.V.W. (1958) Type specimens of marine Mollusca described by P. P. Carpenter, from the West Coast (San Diego to British Columbia). The Geological Society of America Memoir, 76, 1–376., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6535
page(s): 168-169 [details]
additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): p. 69. [details]
additional source Valentine, J. W.; Susuki, T. (1959). <i>Turritella granti</i>, a new pleistocene gastropod from Palos Verdes Hills, California. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 33(4): 688-691., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1300904?seq=1
page(s): figs 2A, D, 3B. [details]
page(s): p. 546 (index), pl. 51, fig. 14. [details]
additional source Ayres, B. (1916). Catálogo das Conchas Exóticas existentes no Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra. Volume 1, pp. 386., available online at https://ia800808.us.archive.org/17/items/catalogodasconch11916univ/catalogodasconch11916univ.pdf
page(s): p. 354, n. 869-A. [details]
additional source Keen, A. M.; Bentson, H. (1944). Checklist of California Tertiary marine Mollusca. <em>Geological Society of America Special Papers.</em> 56: i-viii + 1-280., available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE56-p1
page(s): p. 213. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Blake, J.A., & P.H. Scott (eds.), <i>Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda.</i> Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=MMdJAQAAIAAJ [details]
additional source Merriam, C. W. (1941). Fossil Turritellas from the Pacific Coast Region of North America. <em>University of California Publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences.</em> Volume 26, No. 1, pp. 1-214, plates 1-41; 19 figures in text, 1 map., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822023465453;view=1up;seq=9
page(s): p. 117-119, pl. 33, figs 1-4; pl. 34, figs 9, 12-16; pl. 35, figs 14, 15. [details]
additional source Oldroyd, I. S. (1927). The marine shells of the west coast of North America. <em>Stanford University Publications in Geological Sciences.</em> Volume 2, part 3, pp. 340, pls 73-108., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58082301
page(s): p. 55. [details]
additional source Palmer, K.V.W. (1958) Type specimens of marine Mollusca described by P. P. Carpenter, from the West Coast (San Diego to British Columbia). The Geological Society of America Memoir, 76, 1–376., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/6535
page(s): 168-169 [details]
additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): p. 69. [details]
additional source Valentine, J. W.; Susuki, T. (1959). <i>Turritella granti</i>, a new pleistocene gastropod from Palos Verdes Hills, California. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 33(4): 688-691., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/1300904?seq=1
page(s): figs 2A, D, 3B. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype NHMUK 1865.12.13.88, geounit San Pedro Bay [details]
From editor or global species database
Type material Van Winkle-Palmer (1958:169) stated that no holotype was found, and no other original material than those specimens present in the University of California is known.Carpenter (1864:610) mentions: "Other series, though not so complete, have since been received in safety; and through the liberality of the Californian Survey and of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as through the energy and kindness of Dr. Cooper, they are already being distributed to the Cumingian Collection, the British Museum, the museums at Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia, Albany, Montreal, &c., as well as to the collections of working naturalists."
Recently, a glass tablet holding a specimen of T. cooperi was detected in the General Collection at NHMUK by the present editor, which has been donated to the Museum by the Smithsonian in 1865 (information taken from the Registration book at NHMUK 02/05/2014). As the locality on the card is the same as the type locality mentioned in the original description (San Pedro), this sample (NHMUK Reg No 1865.12.13.88) could be considered a syntype. Confirmation through examination of documentation of the gift is to follow shortly. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications)
To Malacopics (Turritella cooperi P.P.Carpenter,1864 United States, California)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To Malacopics (Turritella cooperi P.P.Carpenter,1864 United States, California)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
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