Cerithium

Cerithium
Temporal range: Triassic–Recent
Two views of a shell of Cerithium echinatum, the "spiny creeper"
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Cerithiidae
Subfamily: Cerithiinae
Genus: Cerithium
Bruguière, 1789[1]
Synonyms
  • Bayericerithium Petuch, 2001
  • Cerithium (Conocerithium) Sacco, 1895
  • Cerithium (Contumax) Hedley, 1899
  • Cerithium (Ischnocerithium) Thiele, 1929
  • Cerithium (Pithocerithium) Sacco, 1895
  • Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) Sacco, 1895
  • Cerithium (Thericium) Monterosato, 1890
  • Gourmya (Gladiocerithium) Monterosato, 1910
  • Semivertagus Cossman
  • Thericium Monterosato
  • Conocerithium Sacco, 1895
  • Tiaracerithium Sacco, 1895
  • Contumax Hedley, 1899
  • Ischnocerithium Thiele, 1929

Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.[2]

Species

Species within this genus include:

Fossil records

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:

Gallery

50 second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium muscarum) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico

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): 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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