{{Short description|Family of sea snails}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Turbinellidae | image = Turbinella pyrum 01.jpg | image_caption = ''Turbinella pyrum'' | authority = Swainson, 1835 | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|456412|''Exilia'' Conrad, 1860||11 April 2012}}</ref> | synonyms = * Scolyminae <small>Swainson, 1840</small> * Turbinellinae S<small>wainson, 1835</small> superseded rank * Xancidae <small>Pilsbry, 1922</small> | type_genus = | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = ''See text'' | display_parents = 3 }}
'''Turbinellidae''' are a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Members of this family are predators.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ponder, Winston Frank|author2= Lindberg, David R.|author3=Ponder, Juliet Mary |title=Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XNS-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1934 |year=2019 |publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-1-351-11564-3 |page=1934}}</ref>
==Distribution== Species in this family are found worldwide, mostly in tropical shallow waters but some in deep waters.
==Genera== * ''Cryptofusus'' <small>Beu, 2011</small> * † ''Fascioplex'' <small>Marwick, 1934</small> * † ''Fimbrivasum'' <small>Squires & Saul, 2001</small> † * † ''Fyfea'' <small>H. J. Finlay & Marwick, 1937</small> † * † ''Latirogona'' <small>Laws, 1944</small> * † ''Pisanella'' <small>Koenen, 1865</small> * ''Syrinx'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Turbinella'' <small>Lamarck, 1799</small>
== Subfamilies == * subfamily Columbariinae <small>Tomlin, 1928</small>: synonym of Columbariidae <small>Tomlin, 1928</small>
* subfamily Tudiclinae <small>Cossmann, 1901</small>: synonym of Tudiclidae <small>Cossmann, 1901</small> (superseded rank)
* subfamily Vasinae <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1840)</small>: synonym of Vasidae <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853</small> (superseded rank)
<gallery style="text-align:center;" mode="packed"> Image:Syrinx aruanus 61 a.jpg|''Syrinx aruanus'' Image:Turbinella pyrum 01.jpg|''Turbinella pyrum'' </gallery>
;Genera brought into synonymy : * ''Buccinella'' <small>Perry, 1811</small> : synonym of ''Turbinella'' <small>Lamarck, 1799</small> * ''Cynodonta'' <small>Schumacher, 1817</small> : synonym of ''Vasum'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> * ''Megalatractus'' <small>P. Fischer, 1884</small>: synonym of ''Syrinx'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> (junior subjective synonym) * ''Perostylus'' <small>Pilsbry, 1894</small>: synonym of ''Syrinx'' <small>Röding, 1798</small> (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym) * ''Scolymus'' <small>Swainson, 1835</small>: synonym of ''Turbinella'' <small>Lamarck, 1799</small> (junior subjective synonym) * ''Surculina'' <small>Dall, 1908</small>: synonym of ''Exilia'' Conrad, 1860 * ''Tudicula'' <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864</small> : synonym of ''Tudivasum'' <small>Rosenberg & Petit, 1987</small> * ''Xancus'' <small>Röding, 1798</small>: synonym of ''Turbinella'' <small>Lamarck, 1799</small> (placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 489)
==References== {{Commons category|Turbinellidae}} {{Reflist}} * Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (Ed.). (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.'' Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. {{ISBN|2-85653-538-0}}. 463 pp. * {{cite journal |last1=Dekkers |first1=A. |last2=Maxwell |first2=S. |title=''Altivasum'' Hedley, 1914 (Gastropoda: Turbinellidae) from South Western Australia |journal=The Festivus |date=2018 |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=245–255 |doi=10.54173/F504245|doi-access=free}}
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