Cerithidium
Genus of gastropods
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Cerithidium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.[1]
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| Cerithidium | |
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| Shell of † Cerithidium plebeium (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Cerithiidae |
| Genus: | Cerithidium Monterosato, 1884 |
| Type species | |
| Cerithium submammillatum de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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The genus has been used as valid for Indo-Pacific species following Hasegawa (1998), on the grounds that it is older than Clathrofenella Kuroda & Habe, 1952. However, the Mediterranean type species is a Bittium, for which reason this generic assignment should be revised. The opinion of Hasegawa (1998) and van Aartsen (2006) is followed here [1]
Species
Species within the genus Cerithidium include:
- Cerithidium actinium Rehder, 1980[2]
- Cerithidium australiense Thiele, 1930[3]
- Cerithidium cerithinum (Philippi, 1849)[4]
- Cerithidium californica
- Cerithidium diplax (Watson, 1886)[5]
- † Cerithidium fragrans Barnard, 1963
- Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)
- Cerithidium liratum Thiele, 1930[6]
- † Cerithidium perminimum (de Boury, 1900)
- Cerithidium perparvulum (Watson, 1886)[7]
- † Cerithidium plebeium Lozouet, 1998
- Cerithidium submamillatum (De Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cerithidium pusillum (Jeffreys, 1856): synonym of Bittium submammillatum (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854) synonym of Cerithidium submammillatum (De Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
- Cerithidium reticulatum (A. Adams, 1860): synonym of Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)
