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)
|display_parents = 3
|taxon = Cerithidium
|authority = Monterosato, 1884
|synonyms =
- Bittium (Cerithidium) Monterosato, 1884
- Clathrofenella Kuroda & Habe, 1952
|type_species = Cerithium submammillatum
|type_species_authority = de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854
}}
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:
- Cerithidium actinium Rehder, 1980{{WRMS species|473088|Cerithidium actinium Rehder, 1980||17 May 2010}}
- Cerithidium australiense Thiele, 1930{{WRMS species|473089|Cerithidium australiense Thiele, 1930||17 May 2010}}
- Cerithidium cerithinum (Philippi, 1849){{WRMS species|473090|Cerithidium cerithinum (Philippi, 1849)||17 May 2010}}
- Cerithidium californica
- Cerithidium diplax (Watson, 1886){{WRMS species|397036|Cerithidium diplax (Watson, 1886)||17 May 2010}}
- † Cerithidium fragrans Barnard, 1963
- Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)
- Cerithidium liratum Thiele, 1930{{WRMS species|473091|Cerithidium liratum Thiele, 1930||17 May 2010}}
- † Cerithidium perminimum (de Boury, 1900)
- Cerithidium perparvulum (Watson, 1886){{WRMS species|397037|Cerithidium perparvulum (Watson, 1886)||17 May 2010}}
- † Cerithidium plebeium Lozouet, 1998
- Cerithidium submamillatum (De Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
;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
{{Reflist}}
- [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
External links
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- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109711 Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi, 152 pp]
- [http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ Oliverio, Marco (2006). Gastropoda Prosobranchia Caenogastropoda, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana]
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