Cerithium

Cerithium Temporal range: Triassic–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Two views of a shell of Cerithium echinatum, the "spiny creeper"
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	Cerithiidae
Subfamily:	Cerithiinae
Genus:	Cerithium Bruguière, 1789
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.

Species

Species within this genus include:

Fossil records

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 including:

• Cerithium crenatum from the Pliocene of Italy
• Cerithium elegans Deshayes, 1824
• Cerithium cattleyae Baily, 1856 from Miocene of Crimea and South Russia

Gallery

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  Cerithium caeruleum
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  Cerithium columna
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  Cerithium coralium
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  Cerithium dalli
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  Cerithium dialeucum
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  Cerithium echinatum
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  Cerithium lifuense
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  Cerithium litteratum
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  Cerithium nesioticum
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  Cerithium nodulosum
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  Cerithium scabridum
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  Cerithium scobiniforme
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  Cerithium tenellum
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  Cerithium torulosum
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  Cerithium varicosum
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  Cerithium vulgatum

See also

• Bittium

References

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• 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