Specific epithet 'fontanea' after Mr Fontaine, who collected the type material from off Coquimbo, Chili (per ... [details]
Species initially named Turritella californica in an unpublished manuscript by Broderip. d'Orbigny (1840:388-389) ... [details]
In the original description, d'Orbigny used the spelling torallii, changed to torallyi in 1838. Torally was a ... [details]
The spelling of the specific epithet for this taxa is problematic. BrachNet (2023) uses spelling 'fontanea'. The ... [details]