sentences: "Abbasites" is small and subglobular with ribbing that divides high on its sides and which has an interruption on the venter that replaces the keel, generally characteristic of the Hammatoceratidae 
  
  "Abbasites" was originally described by Sydney S. Buckman in 1921, with "A. abbas" as its type species, and was considered by some to be a subgenus of "Erycites".