Turrisipho

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Turrisipho is a genus of sea snails, or marine gastropod mollusks. They belong to the family Colidae within the larger group Buccinoidea.

Classification (simplified):
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Mollusca
- Class: Gastropoda
- Subclass: Caenogastropoda
- Order: Neogastropoda
- Superfamily: Buccinoidea
- Family: Colidae
- Genus: Turrisipho

The genus was named by Dautzenberg and Fischer in 1912. Its type species is Fusus (Siphonorbis) lachesis, described by Mörch in 1869. Synonyms include Colicryptus (Iredale, 1918) and Sipho (Turrisipho) Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912. There are several species in this genus.