Cerithiella

Cerithiella
Apertural view of a shell of Cerithiella austrina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Hypsogastropoda
informal group Ptenoglossa

Superfamily: Triphoroidea
Family: Newtoniellidae
Genus: Cerithiella
Verrill, 1882
Type species
Cerithium metula Lovén, 1846
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Binda Laseron, 1951
  • Cerithiella (Cerithiella) Verrill, 1882
  • Cerithiolinum Locard, 1903
  • Chasteria Iredale, 1915
  • Euseila Cotton, 1951
  • Lovenella G. O. Sars, 1878 (non Hincks, 1869)
  • Newtonia Cossman, 1892 (non Schlegel 1867)
  • Newtoniella Cossman, 1893
  • Stilus Jeffreys, 1885

Cerithiella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.[1]

This genus was described by Verrill in 1882.

Species

Species in the genus Cerithiella include:

Species brought into synonymy 

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Cerithiella at World Register of Marine Species; accessed : 29 May 2012