Makiyamaia MacNeil, 1961

Kilburn, Richard N., Fedosov, Alexander E. & Olivera, Baldomero M., 2012, Revision of the genus Turris Batsch, 1789 (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae) with the description of six new species, Zootaxa 3244 (1), pp. 1-58 : 57

Makiyamaia MacNeil, 1961

Type species (o.d.) Pleurotoma coreanica Adams & Reeve, 1850 , Recent of Japan and Korea.

The following species, described as Turris orthopleura Kilburn, 1983 , was originally known only from specimens that have since proved to be juveniles. The adults now available are clearly not referable to Turris , but to genus Makiyamaia , family Clavatulidae (Bouchet, et al, 2011; Puillandre, et al, 2011).

This genus, reported previously only from Japan, Korea and China, appears also to be represented in South Africa by Pleurotoma gravis Hinds, 1843 , of the Agulhas Bank, and probably Surcula scalaria Barnard, 1958 , from off Cape Point in 480–800 fath. [878–1463 m]. Another South African species proves to be Turris orthopleura , which is here redescribed, based on fully adult specimens.