Pseudovertagus aluco

Pseudovertagus aluco

Five views of a shell of Pseudovertagus aluco
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Cerithiidae
Genus:	Pseudovertagus
Species:	P. aluco
Binomial name
*Pseudovertagus aluco* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms^[1]
Cerithium (Aluco) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) Cerithium (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) Cerithium (Vertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) Cerithium aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) Cerithium cumingii A. Adams in G.B. Sowerby II, 1855 Murex aluco Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Murex coronatus Born, 1778 Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) Rhinoclavis aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) Strombus coronatus (Röding, 1798) Vertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758) Vertagus cumingii (A. Adams in G.B. Sowerby II, 1855)

Pseudovertagus aluco, common name aluco vertagus or Cuming's cerith, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.^[1]^[2]

This species is present in the Indo-Pacific from the Eastern Africa to Philippines, and in Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia), the Samoan Islands and New Caledonia.^[3]^[4]

Habitat

Pseudovertagus aluco can be found on sand-bars at the high tide level, on tidalflats, on clean sand and coralrubble.^[5]^[6]

Description

Shell of Pseudovertagus aluco can reach a length of 45–95 millimetres (1.8–3.7 in).^[3] This species possess high-spired shells with a small aperture and a few spiral rows of tubercles.

Behaviour

These sea snails usually extend their proboscis and foot deep into the sediments, rather than burrowing below the surface.^[6]

References

1 2 Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
↑ OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
1 2 "Pseudovertagus aluco". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
↑ Sealife Base
↑ Walter Olivier Cernohorsky (1972). "The Taxonomy of Some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with Descriptions of New Species". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 9: 195–204. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906180. Wikidata Q58676917.
1 2 Jenny Sa ¨ lgeback and Enrico Savazzi Constructional morphology of cerithiform gastropods

Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systemae naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differetiis, synonymis, locis.v. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii 824 pp.
Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. – Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp.
Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp.
Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(IX-XV) pp. 257–484, pls 33–60.
Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847–899, pls 176–186.
Kobelt, W. 1898. Die Gattung Cerithium Lam. 201–297, pls 37–47 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1.
Thiele, J. 1931. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 2 pp. 377–778.
Hirase, S. & Taki, I. 1951. A handbook of illustrated shells in natural colors from the Japanese Islands and adjacent territories. Tokyo : Bunkyokaku xxiv, 134 pp.
Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.
Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 9: 195–204
Houbrick, R.S. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1–130
Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.

Pseudovertagus aluco

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