Cerithium

Summary

Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.[2]

Cerithium
Temporal range: Triassic–Recent
Two views of a shell of Cerithium echinatum, the "spiny creeper"
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Cerithiidae
Subfamily: Cerithiinae
Genus: Cerithium
Bruguière, 1789[1]
Type species
Cerithium adansonii
Bruguière, 1792
Synonyms
  • Bayericerithium Petuch, 2001
  • Cerithium (Cerithium) Bruguière, 1789· accepted, alternate representation
  • Cerithium (Chondrocerithium) Monterosato in Cossmann, 1906 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cerithium (Conocerithium) Sacco, 1895
  • Cerithium (Contumax) Hedley, 1899
  • Cerithium (Gladiocerithium) Monterosato, 1910
  • Cerithium (Hirtocerithium) Monterosato, 1910
  • Cerithium (Ischnocerithium) Thiele, 1929
  • Cerithium (Pithocerithium) Sacco, 1895
  • Cerithium (Thericium) Monterosato, 1890
  • Cerithium (Vulgocerithium) Cossmann, 1895
  • Colina (Ischnocerithium) Thiele, 1929
  • Conocerithium Sacco, 1895
  • Contumax Hedley, 1899
  • Drillocerithium Monterosato, 1910
  • Gladiocerithium Monterosato, 1910
  • Gourmierium Jousseaume, 1894
  • Gourmya (Gladiocerithium) Monterosato, 1910
  • Hirtocerithium Monterosato, 1910
  • Liocerithium Sacco, 1894
  • Lithocerithium Monterosato, 1910
  • Rhinoclavis (Ochetoclava) Woodring, 1928
  • Semivertagus Cossman
  • Thericium Monterosato
  • Tiaracerithium Sacco, 1895
  • Ischnocerithium Thiele, 1929

Species edit

Species within this genus include:

Fossil records edit

 
Fossil shells of Cerithium crenatum from Pliocene of Italy

The genus is known from the Triassic to the Recent periods (age range: from 221.5 to 0.0 million years ago). Fossils shells have been found all over the world. There are about 100 extinct species[4][5] including:

  • Cerithium crenatum from the Pliocene of Italy
  • Cerithium elegans Deshayes, 1824[6]

Gallery edit

50 second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium muscarum) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bruguière (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers) 1(2): xv, 546.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ van Gemert, L. J. (2012). A new Cerithium from the Philippines (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae). Visaya 3 (5) Archived 2012-11-05 at the Wayback Machine: 11-14.
  4. ^ Fossilworks
  5. ^ (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., ISBN 80-7067-599-3.
  6. ^ Cerithium elegans at Museum National d'>Histoire Naturelle, Paris
  • 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