1987  Akiyoshiceras Kyuma & Nishida: 26.

Type species: Akiyoshiceras subridens Kyuma & Nishida, 1987, p.28; OD.

Fig. TAX6422 1-5 A. subridens, 6-8 A. hotei (sutures).

[Kyuma & Nishida, p.26: Shell of moderate to small size; umbilical wall moderately inclined to late middle growth-stage,
becoming steeper to nearly vertical and also narrowed in early maturity; surface without sculpture but for one or more
pairs of transversely aligned pit-like depressions on the venter and/or two narrow transverse swellings of the outer
face of the whorl, both of which appear on the middle part of the unusually long adult body-chamber; suture of
Neoicoceras type.