Cerithidium Monterosato 1884

Cerithidium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.^[1]

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 ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Cerithidium include:

• Cerithidium actinium Rehder, 1980^[2]
• Cerithidium australiense Thiele, 1930^[3]
• Cerithidium cerithinum (Philippi, 1849)^[4]
• Cerithidium californica
• Cerithidium diplax (Watson, 1886)^[5]
• † Cerithidium fragrans Barnard, 1963
• Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)
• Cerithidium liratum Thiele, 1930^[6]
• † Cerithidium perminimum (de Boury, 1900)
• Cerithidium perparvulum (Watson, 1886)^[7]
• † Cerithidium plebeium Lozouet, 1998
• Cerithidium submamillatum (De Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cerithidium pusillum (Jeffreys, 1856): synonym of Bittium submammillatum (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854) synonym of Cerithidium submammillatum (De Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
• Cerithidium reticulatum (A. Adams, 1860): synonym of Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)

References

• Hasegawa K., 1998. A review of recent Japanese species previously assigned to Eufenella and Clathrofenella (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cerithioidea). Memoirs of the National Science Museum (Tokyo) 31: 165-186
• Lozouet, P., 1998. Nouvelles espèces de gastéropodes (Mollusca: Gastropoda) de l'Oligocène et du Miocène inférieur d'Aquitaine (sud-ouest de la France). Cossmanniana 5(3-4): 61-102
• 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
• van Aartsen J.J. (2006). Indo-Pacific migrants into the Mediterranean. 4. Cerithidium diplax (Watson, 1886) and Cerithidium perparvulum (Watson, 1886) (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda). Basteria 70: 33-39

Cerithidium is een geslacht van slakken uit de familie van de Cerithiidae. De wetenschappelijke naam van het geslacht is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1884 door Monterosato.

Soorten

De volgende soorten zijn bij het geslacht ingedeeld:

• Cerithidium actinium Rehder, 1980
• Cerithidium australiense Thiele, 1930
• Cerithidium cerithinum (Philippi, 1849)
• Cerithidium diplax (Watson, 1886)
• Cerithidium fragrans Barnard, 1963
• Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)
• Cerithidium liratum Thiele, 1930
• Cerithidium perparvulum (Watson, 1886)