Acmaturris Explained

Acmaturris is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Mangeliidae.^[1]

Description

(Original description) The medium-sized shell is slender or moderately slender. The protoconch is broad-tipped, consisting of about 2½ whorls, the last one sculptured with curved, protractive, axial riblets that may be swollen on a peripheral keel. The aperture is long and moderately narrow. The anterior canal is short and unemarginate. The outer lip is strongly varicose, the edge frilled. The anal notch is moderately deep and is broadly rounded. The parietal callus thickened the adjoining notch. The sculpture consists of narrow axial ribs and of strong spiral threads, and also of microscopic frosted spiral threads. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea off Guadeloupe and French Guyana.

Fossils were found in Miocene strata in Jamaica.

Species

Species within the genus Acmaturris include:

• Acmaturris ampla McLean & Poorman, 1971
• Acmaturris brisis Woodring, 1928
• † Acmaturris comparata Woodring, 1928
• Acmaturris pelicanus Garcia, 2008
• † Acmaturris scalida Woodring 1928

Species brought into synonymy:

• Acmaturris annaclaireleeae García, 2008: synonym of Pyrgocythara annaclaireleeae (García, 2008)
• Acmaturris metria (Dall, 1903): synonym of Vitricythara metria (Dall, 1903)
• Acmaturris vatovai Nordsieck, 1971: synonym of Kurtziella serga (Dall, 1881)

External links

• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
• Fossilworks: Acmaturris
• Todd, Jonathan A. "Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections." Budd and Foster 2006 (1996)

Notes and References

1. WoRMS (2016). Acmaturris Woodring, 1928. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432390 on 2017-02-25
2. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59220479 W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies