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Bittiolum varium (Pfeiffer, 1840) 
AphiaID: 160174

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Cerithiidae (Family) > Bittiinae (Subfamily) > Bittiolum (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bittiolum Cossmann, 1906
Synonymised
taxa
  Bittiolum properatum Woodring, 1928 (original combination)
Bittium varium (Pfeiffer, 1840) (chresonym)
Cerithium columellare d'Orbigny, 1847 (original combination)
Cerithium gibberulum C. B. Adams, 1845 (original combination)
Cerithium pallidum Pfeiffer, 1840 (original combination)
Cerithium triseriale Gabb, 1881 (original combination)
Cerithium varium Pfeiffer, 1840 (original combination)
Diastoma varium (Pfeiffer, 1840) (chresonym)
Sources  basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

basis of record: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Malacolog - Western atlantic gastropod database., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English grass cerith  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Aruba [details]
Atlantic [details]
Belize [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Curaçao [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Trinidad and Tobago [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Virginian, south side of Cape Cod, and extending northward of the subprovince limit and to Maryland, North Carolina, Florida; Florida: East Florida, West Florida; USA: Louisiana, Texas; Mexico; Mexico: Tamaulipas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Campeche State, Cayo Arcas, Campeche, Yucatan State, Campeche Bank, Alacran Reef, Quintana Roo; Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela; Venezuela: unlocalized; Cuba; Cuba: Havana Province, Matanzas; Virgin Islands: St. Croix; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Grenada; Brazil; Brazil: Para, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]
Image 
Bittiolum varium
Bittiolum varium
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160174
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-31 07:34:34Z  created  Claus, Simon
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
2010-11-01 08:46:33Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Bittiolum varium (Pfeiffer, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160174 on 2013-05-21
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