Atlanta turriculata

Atlanta turriculata
Shell of Atlanta turriculata (neotype at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Atlantidae
Genus:	Atlanta
Species:	A. turriculata
Binomial name
Atlanta turriculata d'Orbigny, 1835

Atlanta turriculata is a species of sea snail, a holoplanktonic marine gastropod mollusk in the family Atlantidae. ^[1]

(Description in Latin by Souleyet) The shell is glassy, disc-shaped, broadly keeled, extremely thin, and transparent. The spire is very small, protruding, and tower-shaped. It is composed of five slightly convex whorls, with the final whorl being keeled.

The aperture is ovate-subacute (somewhat egg-shaped and pointed), slightly reflected (turned back) at the rear, and lightly notched at the front. The peristome (the lip of the shell) is thin and sharp. The operculum is glassy, nearly oval, thin, transparent, and has few whorls. ^[2]

This species is distinguished by its tower-like (turriculate) spire.

References

1. Atlanta turriculata A. d'Orbigny, 1836 . 27 December 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Souleyet, L.F.A. (1852). Souleye Tome Deuxième. Mollusques. In: Eydoux, F.; Souleyet, L. F. A. (1841-1852). Voyage autour du monde exécuté pendant les années 1836 et 1837 sur la corvette La Bonite. Zoologie. 664 pp., 101 pls (plates published 1841, but without Latin species names). Paris: Arthus Bertrand. p. 391. Retrieved 25 December 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
• Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp.

External links

• Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome 5(3) Mollusques
• Skoglund, C. (2002). "Panamic Province Molluscan literature. Additions and changes from 1971 through 2001. III Gastropoda". Festivus. 33 (suppl.).
• Janssen, A.W. (2007). "Holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from the gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea and gulf of Aden (Late Holocene-Recent)". The Veliger. 49 (3): 140–195.
• Wall-Palmer, D.; Hegmann, M.; Goetze, E.; Peijnenburg, K. T. C. A. (2019). "Resolving species boundaries in the Atlanta brunnea species group (Gastropoda, Pterotracheoidea)". ZooKeys. 899: 77. Retrieved 27 December 2025.