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Cerithidium
Sign in to saveCerithidium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyCerithiidae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 400
- With media
- 7
- Family
- Cerithiidae
- Collections
- RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, SBMNH, MNHN, AM
- Recorded in
- Malta, Turkey, French Polynesia, Mexico, France, Australia, Nouvelle-Caledonie
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cerithiidae
- Image
- Cerithidium plebeium (MNHN-IM-2000-34237).jpeg
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- Cerithidium
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- Category:Cerithidium
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Cerithidium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.
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
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