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Cerithium

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Triassic|Recent}}

| image = Cerithium echinatum.shell001.jpg

| image_caption = Two views of a shell of Cerithium echinatum, the "spiny creeper"

| taxon = Cerithium

| authority = Bruguière, 1789Bruguière (1789). Ency. Méth. (Vers) 1(2): xv, 546.

| 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

|type_species = Cerithium adansonii

|type_species_authority = Bruguière, 1792

}}

Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.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

Species

Species within this genus include:

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Fossil records

{{See also|List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record}}

File: Cerithidae - Cerithium crenatum.JPG

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[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=9632 Fossilworks](in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., {{ISBN|80-7067-599-3}}. including:

  • Cerithium crenatum from the Pliocene of Italy
  • Cerithium elegans Deshayes, 1824[https://science.mnhn.fr/taxon/species/cerithium/elegans Cerithium elegans at Museum National d'>Histoire Naturelle, Paris]
  • Cerithium cattleyae Baily, 1856 from Miocene of Crimea and South Russia[https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1782457 Cerithium cattleyae at MolluscaBase]

Gallery

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File:Cerithium caeruleum 01.JPG|Cerithium caeruleum

File:Cerithium columna.shell001.jpg|Cerithium columna

File:Cerithium coralium 01.JPG|Cerithium coralium

File:Cerithium dalli SR 02-224 02.jpg|Cerithium dalli

File:Cerithium dialeucum 01.JPG|Cerithium dialeucum

File:Cerithium echinatum.shell001.jpg|Cerithium echinatum

File:Cerithium lifuense.shell001.jpg|Cerithium lifuense

File:Cerithium litteratum (Born, 1778) (4311966772).jpg|Cerithium litteratum

File:Cerithium nesioticum.jpg|Cerithium nesioticum

File:Cerithium nodulosum 01.jpg|Cerithium nodulosum

File:Cerithium scabridum01.JPG|Cerithium scabridum

File:Cerithium scobiniforme 001.jpg|Cerithium scobiniforme

File:Cerithium tenellum 002.jpg|Cerithium tenellum

File:Cerithium torulosum.jpg|Cerithium torulosum

File:Cerithium varicosum 01.JPG|Cerithium varicosum

File:Cerithium vulgatum 02.JPG|Cerithium vulgatum

File:SeaSnails.ogv and Cerithium muscarum) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico]]

See also

References

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  • [http://clade.ansp.org/obis/search.php/7311 OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database]
  • [http://www.malacolog.org/search.php?mode=findsnail&genus=Cerithium+&associatedname=&author=&year=&yearend=&Search=Search 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
  • [http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Zoology/pdf_hi/SCTZ-0510.pdf 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

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