WoRMS taxon details
Turricula nelliae spuria (Hedley, 1922)
747248 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:747248)
accepted
Subspecies
Brachytoma spuria (Hedley, 1922) · unaccepted > superseded rank
Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922 · unaccepted (superseded rank and combination)
Pleurotoma tuberculata J. E. Gray, 1839 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Pleurotoma tuberculata Pusch,...)
of Pleurotoma tuberculata Pusch, 1836; Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922 is a replacement name
Turricula byorituensis Nomura, 1935 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Turricula nelliae spurius [sic] · unaccepted (incorrect gender ending)
Turricula tuberculata (J. E. Gray, 1839) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine
(of Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922) Hedley, C. (1922). A revision of the Australian Turridae. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 13 (6): 213-359., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30170760
page(s): 245 [details]
page(s): 245 [details]
Type locality contained in Australian part of the Coral Sea
type locality contained in Australian part of the Coral Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Turricula nelliae spuria (Hedley, 1922). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=747248 on 2026-11-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pleurotoma tuberculata J. E. Gray, 1839) Gray, J. E. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1839). Molluscous animals and their shells. Pp. 103-155, pls 33-34 [pp. 103-142 by J. E. Gray, 143-155 by G. B. Sowerby I]. In: <i>The zoology of Capt. Beechey's voyage, compiled from the collections on notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits in his Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28.</i> London pp. XII + 186 + 44 pl. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48931613
page(s): 120 [details]
original description (of Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922) Hedley, C. (1922). A revision of the Australian Turridae. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 13 (6): 213-359., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30170760
page(s): 245 [details]
original description (of Turricula byorituensis Nomura, 1935 †) Nomura, S. (1935). Catalogue of the Tertiary and Quartery Mollusca from the island of Taiwan (Formosa) in the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan. Part 2, Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. <em>The Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan Second Series (Geology).</em> 18(2): 53-228, plates 6-10.
page(s): 114 (62) [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Li B.-Q. [Bao-Quan] & Li X.-Z. [Xin-Zheng]. (2008). Report on the two subfamilies Clavatulinae and Cochlespirinae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China seas. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1771: 31-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1771.1.3 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 120 [details]
original description (of Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922) Hedley, C. (1922). A revision of the Australian Turridae. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 13 (6): 213-359., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30170760
page(s): 245 [details]
original description (of Turricula byorituensis Nomura, 1935 †) Nomura, S. (1935). Catalogue of the Tertiary and Quartery Mollusca from the island of Taiwan (Formosa) in the Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan. Part 2, Scaphopoda and Gastropoda. <em>The Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan Second Series (Geology).</em> 18(2): 53-228, plates 6-10.
page(s): 114 (62) [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Li B.-Q. [Bao-Quan] & Li X.-Z. [Xin-Zheng]. (2008). Report on the two subfamilies Clavatulinae and Cochlespirinae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China seas. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1771: 31-42., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1771.1.3 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Turricula nelliae spurius [sic])
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Turricula nelliae spuria)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Turricula nelliae spurius [sic])
To Malacopics (Turricula nelliae spuria (Hedley, 1922) Australia, Northern Territory, Arafura Sea,...
To Malacopics (Turricula nelliae spuria (Hedley, 1922) Hong Kong)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Turricula nelliae spuria)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 16 proteins) (from synonym Turricula nelliae spurius [sic])
To Malacopics (Turricula nelliae spuria (Hedley, 1922) Australia, Northern Territory, Arafura Sea,...
To Malacopics (Turricula nelliae spuria (Hedley, 1922) Hong Kong)
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