Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.
Species
Species within this genus include:
- Cerithium abditum <small> Houbrick, 1992</small>
- Cerithium adustum Kiener, 1841
- Cerithium africanum <small> Houbrick, 1992</small>
- Cerithium albolineatum <small> Bozzetti, 2008</small>
- Cerithium alucastrum <small> (Brocchi, 1814)</small>
- Cerithium alutaceum <small>(Gould, 1861)</small>
- Cerithium atratum <small> (Born, 1778) </small>
- Cerithium atromarginatum <small> Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933</small>
- Cerithium balletoni <small> Cecalupo, 2009</small>
- Cerithium balteatum <small> Philippi, 1848</small>
- Cerithium bayeri <small> (Petuch, 2001) </small>
- Cerithium boeticum <small> Pease, 1860</small>
- Cerithium browni (Bartsch, 1928)
- Cerithium buzzurroi <small> Cecalupo, 2005</small>
- Cerithium caeruleum <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- â Cerithium calculosum <small>Basterot, 1825</small>
- Cerithium cecalupoi <small> Cossignani, 2004</small>
- Cerithium citrinum <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- Cerithium claviforme <small> Schepman, 1907</small>
- Cerithium columna <small> Sowerby, 1834</small>
- Cerithium coralium <small> Kiener, 1841</small>
- Cerithium crassilabrum <small> Krauss, 1848</small>
- Cerithium dialeucum <small> Philippi, 1849</small>
- Cerithium eburneum <small> Bruguière, 1792 </small>
- Cerithium echinatum <small> Lamarck, 1842</small>
- Cerithium egenum <small> Gould, 1849</small>
- â Cerithium excavatum <small>Brongniart in Cuvier & Brongniart, 1822</small>
- Cerithium flemischi <small> Martin, 1933</small>
- Cerithium gallapaginis G.B. Sowerby, 1855
- Cerithium gemmatum Hinds, 1844
- Cerithium georgianum <small> Pfeffer, 1886</small>
- Cerithium gloriosum <small> Houbrick, 1992</small>
- Cerithium gracilis Philippi, 1836
- Cerithium guinaicum <small> Philippi, 1849 </small>
- Cerithium heteroclites <small> Lamarck, 1822</small>
- Cerithium ianthinum <small> Gould, 1849</small>
- Cerithium interstriatum <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- Cerithium ivani <small> Cecalupo, 2008</small>
- Cerithium janthinum <small> (Gould, 1849 in 1846âÂÂ50)</small> : synonym of Cerithium zebrum Kiener, 1841
- Cerithium kobelti <small> Dunker, 1877</small> : synonym of Cerithium dialeucum Philippi, 1849
- Cerithium kreukelorum <small>van Gemert, 2012</small>
- Cerithium leptocharactum <small> Rehder, 1980</small>
- Cerithium lifuense <small> Melvill & Standen, 1895</small>
- Cerithium lindae <small> Petuch, 1987 </small>
- Cerithium lissum <small> Watson, 1880</small>
- Cerithium litteratum <small> (Born, 1778) </small>
- Cerithium lividulum <small> Risso, 1826</small>
- Cerithium lorenzi <small>Bozzetti, 2020</small>
- Cerithium lutosum <small> Menke, 1828 </small>
- Cerithium maculosum <small>Kiener, 1841</small>
- â Cerithium madreporicola <small>Jousseaume, 1931</small>
- Cerithium madreporicola <small> Jousseaume, 1930</small>
- Cerithium mangrovum <small>Q.-M. Sun & S.-P. Zhang, 2014</small>
- Cerithium matukense <small> Watson, 1886</small>
- Cerithium mediolaeve <small>Carpenter, 1857</small>
- Cerithium menkei <small>Carpenter, 1857</small>
- â Cerithium miocanariensis <small>MartÃÂn-González & Vera-Peláez, 2018</small>
- Cerithium moniliferum <small>Kiener, 1842</small> : synonym of Clypeomorus batillariaeformis Habe & Kosuge, 1966
- Cerithium munitum <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- Cerithium muscarum <small> Say, 1832</small>
- Cerithium nesioticum <small> Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906</small>
- Cerithium nicaraguense <small>Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932</small>
- Cerithium nodulosum <small> Bruguière, 1792</small>
- Cerithium novaehollandiae <small> Adams in Sowerby, 1855</small>
- Cerithium ophioderma <small> (Habe, 1968)</small>
- Cerithium pacificum <small> Houbrick, 1992</small>
- Cerithium phoxum <small> Watson, 1880</small>
- Cerithium placidum <small> Gould, 1861</small>
- Cerithium protractum <small> Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838</small>
- Cerithium punctatum <small> Bruguière, 1792</small>
- Cerithium rehderi <small> Houbrick, 1992</small>
- Cerithium renovatum <small> Monterosato, 1884</small>
- Cerithium rostratum <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- Cerithium rubus <small>Deshayes, 1843</small>: synonym of Cerithium echinatum <small>Lamarck, 1822</small>
- Cerithium rueppelli <small> Philippi, 1848</small>
- â Cerithium rufonodulosum <small>E. A. Smith, 1901</small>
- Cerithium salebrosum <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- Cerithium scabridum <small> Philippi, 1848</small>
- Cerithium scobiniforme <small> Houbrick, 1992</small>
- Cerithium spinosum <small>Philippi, 1836</small>
- Cerithium stercumuscarum <small>Valenciennes, 1833</small>
- Cerithium subscalatum <small>Pilsbry, 1904</small>
- â Cerithium taeniagranulosum <small>Lozouet, 1999</small> âÂÂ
- Cerithium tenellum <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- Cerithium torresi <small> Smith, 1884</small>
- Cerithium torulosum <small> (Linnaeus, 1767)</small>
- Cerithium traillii <small> Sowerby, 1855</small>
- â Cerithium trochleare <small>Lamarck, 1804</small>
- Cerithium tuberculatum <small> (Linnaeus, 1767)</small>
- Cerithium uncinatum <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Cerithium virgatum <small> Montfort, 1810</small> (nomen dubium)
- Cerithium vulgatum <small> Bruguière, 1792</small>
- Cerithium zebrum <small> (Kiener, 1841)</small>
- Cerithium zonatum <small> (Wood, 1828)</small>
Fossil records
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 including:
- Cerithium crenatum from the Pliocene of Italy
- Cerithium elegans Deshayes, 1824
- Cerithium cattleyae Baily, 1856 from Miocene of Crimea and South Russia
Gallery
See also
References
- OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
- A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp
- 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. 180âÂÂ213