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.Fossilworks: Ceritoturris and late Oligocene strata in the Aquitaine BasinLozouet, 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). W.H. Dall, Notes on Molluscan Nomenclature; Proc. biol. Soc. Washington 37: 88.
Species Species within the genus Ceritoturris include: Ceritoturris bittium (Dall, 1924) † Ceritoturris fecunda Lozouet, 1999 Holotype in the MNHN, Paris) † 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