Crommium Cossmann, 1888

Caze, Bruno, Merle, Didier, Meur, Mathieu Le, Pacaud, Jean-Michel, Ledon, Daniel & Martin, Jean-Paul Saint, 2011, Taxonomic implications of the residual colour patterns of ampullinid gastropods and their contribution to the discrimination from naticids, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 (2), pp. 329-347 : 338

Genus Crommium Cossmann, 1888

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Type species: Ampullaria willemeti Deshayes, 1825 (= A. acutum Lamarck, 1804 ), Courtagnon, Grignon, Lutetian.

Description.—The genus Crommium comprises 6 exclusively Palaeogene species (SOM 1). Of the 4 species (SOM 2) observed under UV light 2 display the same very simple morphology of the colour pattern with a fluorescent more or less wide area covering the adapical part ( Fig. 6 ).

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Fig. 6. Species of the genus Crommium Cossmann, 1888, under UV light. A. Crommium acutum (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN B58618 (MNHN coll.), Parnes, Oise, France, Lutetian, in ventral view. B. Crommium acutum (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30889 (MNHN coll.), Boursault, Marne, France, Lutetian, in ventral view. C. Crommium acutum (d’Orbigny, 1850), MNHN A30861 (MNHN coll.), Fleury−la−rivière, Marne, France, Lutetian, in ventral (C1) and dorsal (C2) views. D. Crommium grignonensis (d’Orbigny, 1850), type of Natica heberti Deshayes, 1864, MNHN J04185 (Hébert coll.), Chaumont−en−Vexin, Oise, France, Lutetian, in ventral view. Scale bars 10 mm. Photographs by C. Lemzaouda and P. Loubry (MNHN).