Ceritoturris

Ceritoturris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Horaiclavidae
Genus: Ceritoturris
Dall, 1924
Type species
Crassispira bittium Dall, 1924
Species

See text

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

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

References

  1. ↑ Ceritoturris Dall, 1924.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  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. ↑ Ceritoturris nataliae Kilburn, 1988.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Ceritoturris thailandica Robba et al., 2006.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 April 2010.


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