Cerithium

Cerithium
Temporal range: Triassic–Recent
Two views of a shell of Cerithium echinatum, the "spiny creeper"
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: incertae sedis
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

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

Species

Species within this genus include:

Fossil records

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]
  • Cerithium cattleyae Baily, 1856 from Miocene of Crimea and South Russia[7]
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

References

  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
  7. ^ Cerithium cattleyae at MolluscaBase

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