Ceritoturris

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| image = Ceritoturris sp. 001.jpg

| image_caption = Shell of a Ceritoturris sp. (specimen at MNHN, Paris)

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| taxon = Ceritoturris

| authority = Dall, 1924

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| synonyms = Crassispira (Ceritoturris) Dall, 1924 (original rank)

| type_species = Crassispira bittium

| type_species_authority = Dall, 1924

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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

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

Fossils of Ceritoturris fecunda Lozouet, 1999 have been found in Miocene strata of Germany; age range: 15.97 to 11.608 Ma.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=107023 Fossilworks: Ceritoturris] and late Oligocene strata in the Aquitaine Basin[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].

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.Dall (1924). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107498#page/128/mode/1up W.H. Dall, Notes on Molluscan Nomenclature; Proc. biol. Soc. Washington 37: 88.]

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

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  • 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