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Epitonium (Cirsotrema) howei

Gastropoda - Epitoniidae

Taxonomy
Epitonium (Cirsotrema) howei was named by Durham (1937). Its type specimen is CAS 7004 and is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Cirsotrema acutum, Cirsotrema bourdoty, Cirsotrema claibornense, Cirsotrema cochlea, Cirsotrema cortezi, Cirsotrema cossmanni, Cirsotrema creolum, Cirsotrema crispata, Cirsotrema crispatum, Cirsotrema ertborni, Cirsotrema fimbriosum, Cirsotrema firmatum, Cirsotrema jinnahi, Cirsotrema koeneni, Cirsotrema kuriensis, Cirsotrema lyratum, Cirsotrema nielseni, Cirsotrema ranellinum, Cirsotrema rugulosa, Cirsotrema seguenzai, Cirsotrema subspinosum, Cirsotrema undulatum, Cirsotrema zelebori, Cirsotrema brevicula, Cirsotrema lyratum, Cirsotrema pumiceum, Cirsotrema sallomacense, Cirsotrema sallomacense, Cirsotrema zitteli, Cirsotrema tamanense, Cirsotrema bourdoty, Cirsotrema briarti, Cirsotrema claibornense, Cirsotrema lineatum, Cirsotrema nasssulum, Cirsotrema newtonense, Cirsotrema newtonensis, Cirsotrema nsssulum, Cirsotrema ranellinum, Cirsotrema spillmani, Cirsotrema spillmani, Cirsotrema ertborni, Cirsotrema scaberrimum, Cirsotrema bouillei, Cirsotrema turbonillaeforme, Cirsotrema laubrierei, Cirsotrema youngi, E. aculeatum, E. acuminiense, E. acutum, E. annulatum, E. apiculatum, E. azumana, E. bellastriata, E. brocherti, E. cantrainei, E. carolinae, E. cercadicum, E. chamberlaini, E. championi, E. charlestonense, E. clathratulum, E. commune, E. condoni, E. condoni, E. condoni, E. condoni, E. condoni, E. denticulatum, E. dignitate, E. dolosum, E. duplinianum, E. expectatum, E. exquisitum, E. fargoi, E. foliaceicostum, E. fractum, E. frondiculoides, E. gabbi, E. helikum, E. humphreysi, E. imperiale, E. jani, E. junceum, E. kingae, E. kraussi, E. leroyi, E. lineata, E. lineolatum, E. lobrosa, E. merignacense, E. mesogonium, E. minuticosta, E. minutissimum, E. multiliniferum, E. munistriatum, E. muricatum, E. novangliae, E. pongensis, E. potomacense, E. replicatum, E. reticulatum, E. riparum, E. rocheri, E. rugolosa, E. rugulosa, E. sakuraii, E. sayanum, E. scalare, E. sculptatum, E. spiniferum, E. spinosum, E. striatissimum, E. subacutum, E. subscalaris, E. tenuiliratum, E. tenuistriatum, E. teuistriatum, E. textuvestitum, E. turtonis, E. undosum, E. vetustum, E. virginiae, E. virginianum, E. paytens, E. chubutinum, E. dupliniana, E. gabbi, E. laguairense, E. marenum, E. novangliae, E. quirogai, E. rohri, E. rushii, E. sericifilum, E. tonni, E. venezuelense, E. cooperense, E. emydoneus, E. condoni, E. condoni, E. groenlandica, E. schencki, E. yabei, E. linoe, E. linoe, E. suboptima, E. clathrus, E. okinavensis, E. revoltum, E. revolutum, E. auritum, E. eucteanum, E. kingae, E. charitopolos, E. cingolanii, E. foliaceicostatum, E. foliaceicostum, E. foliaceicostum, E. foliaceiscostatum, E. humphreysi, E. krebsii, E. leptosomum, E. maturense, E. replicata, E. unifasciatum, E. venosum, E. cionei, E. mcglameriae, E. perplexum, E. carolinae, E. fasciatum, E. junceum, E. aduncum, E. ventulum, E. lepta, E. pratti, E. robesonense, E. gabbi, E. virginiae, E. subexpansum, E. witfieldi, Scala bourgeois, Scala peyroti, Scala subspinosa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Epitonium (Cirsotrema) howei Durham p. 492 figs. Plate 56, figure 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
superfamilyEpitonioidea(Berry 1910)
familyEpitoniidaeBerry 1910
genusEpitoniumMörch 1852
subgenusCirsotrema
specieshowei

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
J. W. Durham 1937Shell of moderate size, fairly heavy,
having about seven whorls (incomplete); whorls well rounded; sutures deep; orna- mented by nine prominent varices strongly reflexed posteriorly, bending slightly back as they leave the suture and then straightening out to form slight coronating points just below the suture; interspaces nearly three times as wide as base of varices; on median half of whorl there are about four low, heavy threads twice as broad as their interspaces; areas above and below the four spirals appar- ently obsolete of spiral ornamentation; between the lowest two spirals there is usually a fine secondary rib, faint ex- pressions of the spiral ribs show on the outer surface of the varices; "basal keel" very prominent; aperture slightly ovate.
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitef
Composition 2: low Mg calcitef
Locomotion: slow-movingf
Life habit: low-level epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2007-02-05 23:13:43
Modified: 2011-09-22 17:20:39
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Beu et al. 1990
Collections
No collection or age range data are available