Ceritoturris
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| Ceritoturris | |
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| Shell of a Ceritoturris sp. (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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 | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Crassispira (Ceritoturris) Dall, 1924 (original rank) | |
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]
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]
