''Ceritoturris'' is a
genus of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
s, marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusks in the
family Horaiclavidae
Horaiclavidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea.
In 2011 this family was split off from the family Pseudomelatomidae (formerly the subfamily Crassispirinae McLean, 1971) by Bouchet P., Ka ...
.
[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
Pseudomelatomidae is a family of predatory sea snails, marine gastropods included in the superfamily Conoidea (previously Conacea) and part of the Neogastropoda ( Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).
In 1995 Kantor elevated the subfamily Pseudomelatomina ...
, family
Turridae
Turridae is a taxonomic family name for a number of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. MolluscaBase (2018). Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Specie ...
.
Fossils of ''Ceritoturris fecunda''
Lozouet, 1999 have been found in
Miocene strata of
Germany; age range: 15.97 to 11.608 Ma. and late
Oligocene
The Oligocene ( ) is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present ( to ). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the ...
strata in the
Aquitaine Basin
Description
The minute shell has a blunt
protoconch
A protoconch (meaning first or earliest or original shell) is an embryonic or larval shell which occurs in some classes of molluscs, e.g., the initial chamber of an ammonite or the larval shell of a gastropod. In older texts it is also called ...
. The second
whorl
A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
Whorls in nature
File:Photograph and axial plane floral ...
shows a peripheral keel. The seven subsequent whorls are moderately rounded, axially and spirally sculptured. The
siphonal canal
The siphonal canal is an anatomical feature of the shells of certain groups of sea snails within the clade Neogastropoda. Some sea marine gastropods have a soft tubular anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon through which water is ...
is almost obsolete.
Species
Species within the genus ''Ceritoturris'' include:
* ''
Ceritoturris bittium''
(Dall, 1924)
* † ''
Ceritoturris fecunda''
Lozouet, 1999
* † ''
Ceritoturris littoralis
''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.o ...
''
Lozouet, 2017
* ''
Ceritoturris nataliae''
Kilburn, 1988
* † ''
Ceritoturris philippei
''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.o ...
''
Lozouet, 2017
* ''
Ceritoturris pupiformis
''Ceritoturris pupiformis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Horaiclavidae.Bouchet, P. (2015). Ceritoturris pupiformis. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www. ...
''
(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: 87-90Bouchet, 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
Horaiclavidae
Gastropod genera
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