Cerithidium

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Cerithidium plebeium (MNHN-IM-2000-34237).jpeg

|image_caption = Shell of † Cerithidium plebeium (holotype at MNHN, Paris)

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|taxon = Cerithidium

|authority = Monterosato, 1884

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|synonyms =

  • Bittium (Cerithidium) Monterosato, 1884
  • Clathrofenella Kuroda & Habe, 1952

|type_species = Cerithium submammillatum

|type_species_authority = de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854

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Cerithidium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.{{WRMS species|238092|Cerithidium Monterosato, 1884||9 February 2011}}

The genus has been used as valid for Indo-Pacific species following Hasegawa (1998), on the grounds that it is older than Clathrofenella Kuroda & Habe, 1952. However, the Mediterranean type species is a Bittium, for which reason this generic assignment should be revised. The opinion of Hasegawa (1998) and van Aartsen (2006) is followed here

Species

Species within the genus Cerithidium include:

;Species brought into synonymy:

  • Cerithidium pusillum (Jeffreys, 1856): synonym of Bittium submammillatum (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854) synonym of Cerithidium submammillatum (De Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
  • Cerithidium reticulatum (A. Adams, 1860): synonym of Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)

References

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  • [http://ci.nii.ac.jp/els/110004313410.pdf?id=ART0006482027&type=pdf&lang=en&host=cinii&order_no=&ppv_type=0&lang_sw=&no=1290676050&cp= Hasegawa K., 1998. A review of recent Japanese species previously assigned to Eufenella and Clathrofenella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 31: 165-186]
  • Lozouet, P., 1998. Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Cossmanniana 5(3-4): 61-102
  • 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
  • van Aartsen J.J. (2006). Indo-Pacific migrants into the Mediterranean. 4. Cerithidium diplax (Watson, 1886) and Cerithidium perparvulum (Watson, 1886) (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda). Basteria 70: 33-39