Ceritoturris

Ceritoturris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Horaiclavidae.[1]

Ceritoturris
Shell of a Ceritoturris sp. (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Ceritoturris
Dall, 1924
Type species
Crassispira bittium
Dall, 1924
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]

Crassispira (Ceritoturris) Dall, 1924 (original rank)

It was previously included within the subfamily Crassispirinae, family Turridae.[1]

Fossils of Ceritoturris fecunda Lozouet, 1999 have been found in Miocene strata of Germany; age range: 15.97 to 11.608 Ma.[2] and late Oligocene strata in the Aquitaine Basin[3]

Description

The minute shell has a blunt protoconch. The second whorl shows a peripheral keel. The seven subsequent whorls are moderately rounded, axially and spirally sculptured. The siphonal canal is almost obsolete.[4]

Species

Species within the genus Ceritoturris include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Ceritoturris papillosa (Garrett, 1873): synonym of Carinapex papillosa (Garrett, 1873)
  • Ceritoturris theoteles (Melvill & Standen, 1896): synonym of Iredalea theoteles (Melvill & Standen, 1896)

References
  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Ceritoturris Dall, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=390828 on 2020-08-04
  2. Fossilworks: Ceritoturris
  3. Lozouet, Pierre. "A new species of Iravadia ss (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Iravadiidae) from the late Oligocene of the Aquitaine Basin (southern France). The earliest record of brackish-water Iravadiidae." Geodiversitas 25.2 (2003): 237-242.
  4. Dall (1924). W.H. Dall, Notes on Molluscan Nomenclature; Proc. biol. Soc. Washington 37: 88.
  5. Holotype in the MNHN, Paris)
  6. Ceritoturris nataliae Kilburn, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  7. Ceritoturris thailandica Robba et al., 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  • Kilburn R.N. (1988). Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 4. Subfamilies Drillinae, Crassispirinae and Strictispirinae. Annals of the Natal Museum. 29(1): 167-320.
  • Lozouet, P., 1999. Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Partie 2. Cossmanniana 6(1-2): 1-68
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