Ceritoturris

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

Ceritoturris
Shell of a Ceritoturris sp. (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Horaiclavidae
Genus:	Ceritoturris Dall, 1924
Type species
Crassispira bittium Dall, 1924
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Crassispira (Ceritoturris) Dall, 1924 (original rank)

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^[6]
• † Ceritoturris philippei Lozouet, 2017
• Ceritoturris pupiformis (E. A. Smith, 1884)
• Ceritoturris suavis (Hervier, 1896)
• Ceritoturris thailandica Robba et al., 2006^[7]

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)