Appolloni, Massimo;Smriglio, Carlo;Amati, Bruno;Lugliè, Lorenzo;Nofroni, Italo;Tringali, Lionello P.;Mariottini, Paolo;Oliverio, Marco
Cerithiidae
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Species
cerithids
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyCerithiidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,778
- With media
- 900
- Family
- Cerithiidae
- Collections
- LACM, UWBM
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Diet
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Subfamilies
- Genera
- References
- External links
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Cerithiidae, common name the cerithiids or ceriths, is a large family of medium-sized marine gastropods in the clade Sorbeoconcha.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cerithiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.