1937  Sizilites Tumanskaya: 377.
     1950  Sizilites.- Ruzhentsev: 204.
     1957  Adrianites.- Treatise: L66.
     1960  Sizilites.- Ruzhentsev: 229.
     1962  Sizilites.- Osnovy: 394.
     1972  Sizilites.-Davis: 57 [with mature modifications of species].
     1988  Sizilites.-Vasicek & Kullmann: 100.

Type species: Adrianites affinis Gemmellaro, 1890, p.16 [OD].

[Ruzhentsev, 1950, p.204: Conch not wide, averagely involute, with large umbilicus.  Sculpture represented by spiral ribs on side wall and radial lines on siphuncular wall;  straight, radial constrictions present.  Ventral lobe regular. Entire suture arched; 4 outer lateral lobes.  All thin, tight at top, sharp at tip.    

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