Turritriton

Turritriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae. This is often still regarded merely as a subgenus of the genus Cymatium.

Description
(Description as Tritoniscus) Forms with subturbinate body with flat-topped turriculate whorls, a short spire and siphonal canal, subumbilicate, with a single large and heavy terminal varix and narrow callus on the body.

Distribution
This genus occurs in tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific Oceans, western America, and the Caribbean Sea.

Species
The genus Turritriton contains the following species:
 * Turritriton fittkaui (Parth, 1991)
 * Turritriton gibbosus (Broderip, 1833) - type species
 * † Turritriton grundensis (R. Hoernes & Auinger, 1884)
 * Turritriton kobelti (Von Maltzan, 1884)
 * Turritriton labiosus (Wood, 1828)
 * Turritriton pharcida (Dall, 1889)
 * Turritriton tenuiliratus (Lischke, 1873)