I'd like to hear from people with some experience in the study of Turridae,
about how large, in their experience, the distribution ranges are for most
species.

I just recently took a bunch of unidentified Turridae from Western
Australia into the Australian Museum to identify. They have heaps of them,
only the vastness in their collection seems to be concentrated in the
number of species, rather than number of specimens per species. Some of the
species I tentatively identified were previously only listed form
Queensland (about 5000 km away from where I found them). All the
information I could find is pretty parochial (i.e. it studies just the
Turridae of a particular area, but does not mention anything about outside
that area). Thus, the distribution ranges of the Turridae have seemed to be
really narrow, much narrower than I think they are. What do other people
think?

Patty Jansen
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