Cerithium

Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks 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
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
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

Species within this genus include:

Fossil records
See also: List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record and List of molluscan genera represented in the fossil record
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]
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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
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