Cerithium Explained

Cerithium is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.^[1]

Species

Species within this genus include:

• Cerithium abditum Houbrick, 1992
• Cerithium adustum Kiener, 1841
• Cerithium africanum Houbrick, 1992
• Cerithium albolineatum Bozzetti, 2008
• Cerithium alucastrum (Brocchi, 1814)
• Cerithium alutaceum (Gould, 1861)
• Cerithium atratum (Born, 1778)
• Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933
• Cerithium balletoni Cecalupo, 2009
• Cerithium balteatum Philippi, 1848
• Cerithium bayeri (Petuch, 2001)
• Cerithium boeticum Pease, 1860
• Cerithium browni (Bartsch, 1928)
• Cerithium buzzurroi Cecalupo, 2005
• Cerithium caeruleum Sowerby, 1855
• † Cerithium calculosum Basterot, 1825
• Cerithium cecalupoi Cossignani, 2004
• Cerithium citrinum Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium claviforme Schepman, 1907
• Cerithium columna Sowerby, 1834
• Cerithium coralium Kiener, 1841
• Cerithium crassilabrum Krauss, 1848
• Cerithium dialeucum Philippi, 1849
• Cerithium eburneum Bruguière, 1792
• Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1842
• Cerithium egenum Gould, 1849
• † Cerithium excavatum Brongniart in Cuvier & Brongniart, 1822
• Cerithium flemischi Martin, 1933
• Cerithium gallapaginis G.B. Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium gemmatum Hinds, 1844
• Cerithium georgianum Pfeffer, 1886
• Cerithium gloriosum Houbrick, 1992
• Cerithium gracilis Philippi, 1836
• Cerithium guinaicum Philippi, 1849
• Cerithium heteroclites Lamarck, 1822
• Cerithium ianthinum Gould, 1849
• Cerithium interstriatum Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium ivani Cecalupo, 2008
• Cerithium janthinum (Gould, 1849 in 1846–50) : synonym of Cerithium zebrum Kiener, 1841
• Cerithium kobelti Dunker, 1877 : synonym of Cerithium dialeucum Philippi, 1849
• Cerithium kreukelorum van Gemert, 2012^[2]
• Cerithium leptocharactum Rehder, 1980
• Cerithium lifuense Melvill & Standen, 1895
• Cerithium lindae Petuch, 1987
• Cerithium lissum Watson, 1880
• Cerithium litteratum (Born, 1778)
• Cerithium lividulum Risso, 1826
• Cerithium lorenzi Bozzetti, 2020
• Cerithium lutosum Menke, 1828
• Cerithium maculosum Kiener, 1841
• † Cerithium madreporicola Jousseaume, 1931
• Cerithium madreporicola Jousseaume, 1930
• Cerithium mangrovum Q.-M. Sun & S.-P. Zhang, 2014
• Cerithium matukense Watson, 1886
• Cerithium mediolaeve Carpenter, 1857
• Cerithium menkei Carpenter, 1857
• † Cerithium miocanariensis Martín-González & Vera-Peláez, 2018
• Cerithium moniliferum Kiener, 1842 : synonym of Clypeomorus batillariaeformis Habe & Kosuge, 1966
• Cerithium munitum Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium muscarum Say, 1832
• Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906
• Cerithium nicaraguense Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
• Cerithium nodulosum Bruguière, 1792
• Cerithium novaehollandiae Adams in Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium ophioderma (Habe, 1968)
• Cerithium pacificum Houbrick, 1992
• Cerithium phoxum Watson, 1880
• Cerithium placidum Gould, 1861
• Cerithium protractum Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838
• Cerithium punctatum Bruguière, 1792
• Cerithium rehderi Houbrick, 1992
• Cerithium renovatum Monterosato, 1884
• Cerithium rostratum Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium rubus Deshayes, 1843: synonym of Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822
• Cerithium rueppelli Philippi, 1848
• † Cerithium rufonodulosum E. A. Smith, 1901
• Cerithium salebrosum Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium scabridum Philippi, 1848
• Cerithium scobiniforme Houbrick, 1992
• Cerithium spinosum Philippi, 1836
• Cerithium stercumuscarum Valenciennes, 1833
• Cerithium subscalatum Pilsbry, 1904
• † Cerithium taeniagranulosum Lozouet, 1999 †
• Cerithium tenellum Sowerby, 1855
• Cerithium torresi Smith, 1884
• Cerithium torulosum (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Cerithium traillii Sowerby, 1855
• † Cerithium trochleare Lamarck, 1804
• Cerithium tuberculatum (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Cerithium uncinatum (Gmelin, 1791)
• Cerithium virgatum Montfort, 1810 (nomen dubium)
• Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière, 1792
• Cerithium zebrum (Kiener, 1841)
• Cerithium zonatum (Wood, 1828)

Fossil records

See also: List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record.

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^{[3] [4]} including:

• Cerithium crenatum from the Pliocene of Italy
• Cerithium elegans Deshayes, 1824^[5]

Gallery

See also

• Bittium

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. 180–213

Notes and References

1. 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
2. van Gemert, L. J. (2012). A new Cerithium from the Philippines (Gastropoda: Cerithiidae). Visaya (5) : 11-14.
3. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=9632 Fossilworks
4. (in Czech) Pek I., Vašíček Z., Roček Z., Hajn. V. & Mikuláš R.: Základy zoopaleontologie. - Olomouc, 1996. 264 pp., .
5. https://science.mnhn.fr/taxon/species/cerithium/elegans Cerithium elegans at Museum National d'>Histoire Naturelle, Paris