Ceritoturris Explained

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

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:

• Ceritoturris bittium (Dall, 1924)
• † Ceritoturris fecunda Lozouet, 1999 ^[5]
• † Ceritoturris littoralis Lozouet, 2017
• Ceritoturris nataliae Kilburn, 1988
• † Ceritoturris philippei Lozouet, 2017
• Ceritoturris pupiformis (E. A. Smith, 1884)
• Ceritoturris suavis (Hervier, 1896)
• Ceritoturris thailandica Robba et al., 2006

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

• 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

External links

• Dall W.H. (1924). Notes on molluscan nomenclature. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 37: 87-90
• Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308

Notes and 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. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=107023 Fossilworks: Ceritoturris
3. http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2003n2a2.pdf 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. https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/im/item/2000-2943?listIndex=1&listCount=21 Holotype in the MNHN, Paris)