Thanks are offered to Dr. Bruce Marshall, Collection Manager
Sciences and Malacologist, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington, New Zealand for the generic placement of this specimen.
This shell appears to represent the first known western Atlantic
occurrence of the genus Cerithiopsidella Bartsch, 1911: 329 <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845561>,
type species by original designation: Cerithiopsis cosmia
Bartsch, 1907: 180 <
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15668346> from the Holocene
of California [to (outer) Baja California]. This species was
redescribed and (first) figured in Bartsch, 1911: 348 <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845580>,
pl. 38, fig. 7 <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845605>.
Protoconch of paratype figured by Marshall (1978: pl. 9, fig. E;
q.v.).
Other known species include:
Cerithiopsidella alcima (Bartsch, 1911: 350 <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845582>;
pl. 39, fig. 2 <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845607>).
Holocene, California.
Cerithiopsidella antefilosa (Bartsch, 1911: 349 <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845581>;
pl. 40, fig. 9 <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845609>)
Holocene, California.
Cerithiopsidella blacki Marshall, 1978 [URL below]: 71-72;
fig. 9 A-D. Holocene, New Zealand. Holotype: <http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/148690>
Cerithiopsidella caterinae Cecalupo and Perugia, 2014: 78;
figs. 1A, 5A-D. Holocene, Madagascar. Abstract only: <http://www.societaitalianadimalacologia.it/Bollettino/Volume-50/Abstract%2050%2075-126.pdf>
Cerithiopsidella propria (Laws, 1941:* 148 <http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_71/rsnz_71_02_002700.html>
<http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/image/rsnz_71/rsnz_71_02_0236_0148_ac_01.html
>, pl. 17, fig. 17 <http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/image/rsnz_71/rsnz_71_02_0241_0000f_ac_01.html>).
Pliocene of New Zealand.
Cerithiopsidella ziliolii Cecalupo and Perugia, 2011: 103-4,
figs. 1E, 6A; pl. 30, figs A-D, pl. 118, figs. A-C. Holocene,
Philippines.
Cerithiopsidella species in Bernasconi and Robba,
1994: pl. 6, fig. 3. Pliocene of Italy.
Bartsch, P., 1907. New marine mollusks from the west coast of
America. Proceedings of the United States National Museum
33(1564): 177-183. <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15668343>
Bartsch, P., 1911. The Recent and fossil mollusks of the genus
Cerithiopsis from the west coast of America. Proceedings of
the United States National Museum 40(1564): 327-367, pls.
36-41. <http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845559>
Bernasconi, M.P. and E. Robba, 1994. Notes on some Pliocene
gastropods from Rio Tosero, western Liguria, Italy. Rivista
Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 100(1): 71-102.
Cecalupo, A. and I. Perugia, 2011. Family Cerithiopsidae H. Adams
and A. Adams, 1853 in the central Philippines. Quaderni della
Civica Stazione Idrobiologica di Milano 30. pp. 1-262 incl. 136
full-page plates, text figures.
Cecalupo, A. and I. Perugia, 2014. The Cerithiopsidae (Caenogastropoda:
Triphoroidea) of South Madagascar (Indian Ocean). Bollettino
Malacologico 50: 75-126.
Laws, C.R., 1942.* The molluscan faunule at Pakaurangi, Kaipara. No.
2. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New
Zealand 71: 134-151, pls. 16-19. *Published as a separate in
September, 1941.
Marshall, B.A., 1978. Cerithiopsidae (Mollusca: Gastropods) of New
Zealand, and a provisional classification of the family. New
Zealand Journal of Zoology 5: 47-120, figs. 1-19. |
