Cerithium
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| Cerithium Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Recent | |
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| Two views of a shell of Cerithium echinatum, the "spiny creeper" | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Cerithiidae |
| Subfamily: | Cerithiinae |
| Genus: | Cerithium Bruguière, 1789[1] |
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Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.[2]
The genus is known from the Cretaceous to the Recent periods.[3]
Species
50 second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium muscarum) feeding on the sea floor in the Sea of Cortez, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico
Species within this genus include:
- Cerithium abditum Houbrick, 1992
- Cerithium adustum Kiener, 1841
- Cerithium africanum Houbrick, 1992
- Cerithium albolineatum Bozzetti, 2008
- Cerithium alexandri Tomlin, 1923
- Cerithium alucastrum (Brocchi, 1814)
- Cerithium atratum (Born, 1778)
- Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933
- Cerithium balletoni Cecalupo, 2009
- Cerithium balteatum Philippi, 1848
- Cerithium bayeri (Petuch, 2001)
- Cerithium boeticum Pease, 1860
- Cerithium browni (Bartsch, 1928)
- Cerithium buzzurroi Cecalupo, 2005
- Cerithium caeruleum Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium cecalupoi Cossignani, 2004
- Cerithium citrinum Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium claviforme Schepman, 1907
- Cerithium columna Sowerby, 1834
- Cerithium coralium Kiener, 1841
- Cerithium crassilabrum Krauss, 1848
- Cerithium dialeucum Philippi, 1849
- Cerithium eburneum Bruguière, 1792
- Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1842
- Cerithium egenum Gould, 1849
- Cerithium flemischi Martin, 1933
- Cerithium gallapaginis G.B. Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium gemmatum Hinds, 1844
- Cerithium georgianum Pfeffer, 1886
- Cerithium gloriosum Houbrick, 1992
- Cerithium gracilis Philippi, 1836
- Cerithium guinaicum Philippi, 1849
- Cerithium heteroclites Lamarck, 1822
- Cerithium ianthinum Gould, 1849
- Cerithium interstriatum Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium ivani Cecalupo, 2008
- Cerithium janthinum (Gould, 1849 in 1846-50) : synonym of Cerithium zebrum Kiener, 1841
- Cerithium kobelti Dunker, 1877 : synonym of Cerithium dialeucum Philippi, 1849
- Cerithium koperbergi Schepman, 1907
- Cerithium kreukelorum van Gemert, 2012[4]
- Cerithium leptocharactum Rehder, 1980
- Cerithium lifuense Melvill & Standen, 1895
- Cerithium lindae Petuch, 1987
- Cerithium lissum Watson, 1880
- Cerithium litteratum (Born, 1778)
- Cerithium lividulum Risso, 1826
- Cerithium lutosum Menke, 1828
- Cerithium maculosum Kiener, 1841
- Cerithium madreporicola Jousseaume, 1930
- Cerithium matukense Watson, 1886
- Cerithium mediolaeve Carpenter, 1857
- Cerithium moniliferum Kiener, 1842 : synonym of Clypeomorus batillariaeformis Habe & Kosuge, 1966
- Cerithium munitum Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium muscarum Say, 1832
- Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906
- Cerithium nicaraguense Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
- Cerithium nodulosum Bruguière, 1792
- Cerithium novaehollandiae Adams in Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium ophioderma (Habe, 1968)
- Cerithium pacificum Houbrick, 1992
- Cerithium phoxum Watson, 1880
- Cerithium placidum Gould, 1861
- Cerithium protractum Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838
- Cerithium punctatum Bruguière, 1792
- Cerithium rehderi Houbrick, 1992
- Cerithium renovatum Monterosato, 1884
- Cerithium rostratum Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium rubus Deshayes, 1843 : synonym of Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822
- Cerithium rueppelli Philippi, 1848
- Cerithium salebrosum Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium scabridum Philippi, 1848
- Cerithium scobiniforme Houbrick, 1992
- Cerithium spinosum Philippi, 1836
- Cerithium stercumuscarum Valenciennes, 1833
- Cerithium tenellum Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium torresi Smith, 1884
- Cerithium torulosum (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Cerithium traillii Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium tuberculatum (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Cerithium uncinatum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Cerithium virgatum Montfort, 1810 (nomen dubium)
- Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière, 1792
- Cerithium zebrum (Kiener, 1841)
- Cerithium zonatum (Wood, 1828)
See also
References
- ↑ Bruguière (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers) 1(2): xv, 546.
- ↑ Gofas, S. (2011). Cerithium Bruguière, 1789. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137760 on 2011-10-07
- ↑ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
- ↑ van Gemert, L. J. (2012). A new Cerithium from the Philippines (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae). Visaya 3 (5): 11-14.
- OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
- A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- Houbrick R.S. (1992). Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian contributions to Zoology 510: 1-211
- Petuch E. 2001. New Gastropods named for Frederick M. Bayer, in Recognition of his Contributions to Tropical Western Atlantic Malacology. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington 10 : 334-343
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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