Cerithideopsilla

Cerithideopsilla is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.[3]

Cerithideopsilla
Live individuals of Cerithideopsilla cingulata and Cerithideopsilla incisa (on the right), in Saikai, Nagasaki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Potamididae
Genus:
Cerithideopsilla

Thiele, 1929[1]
Diversity[2]
16 species (only 4 of them described)

Species

There are altogether 16 species within Cerithideopsilla, but as of January 2015 only four species are formally described:[2]

  • Cerithideopsilla alata (Philippi, 1849)[2]
  • Cerithideopsilla cingulata (Gmelin, 1791)[2]
  • Cerithideopsilla conica (Blainville, 1829)[2]
  • Cerithideopsilla incisa (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848) - synonym: Cerithideopsilla djadjariensis (K. Martin, 1899)[2]
Species brought into synonymy
  • Cerithideopsilla microptera (Kiener, 1842) is a synonym of Cerithidea microptera (Kiener, 1842)
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References
  1. Thiele (1929). Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde 1: page 206.
  2. Ozawa T., Yin W., Fu C., Claremont M., Smith L. & Reid D. G. (2015). "Allopatry and overlap in a clade of snails from mangroves and mud flats in the Indo-West Pacific and Mediterranean (Gastropoda: Potamididae: Cerithideopsilla)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114(1): 212-228. doi:10.1111/bij.12401.
  3. Reid, David G. (2013). Cerithideopsilla Thiele, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446427 on 2014-03-21


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