WoRMS taxon details
Cerithium caeruleum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855
AphiaID: 216702
AphiaID: 216702
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Cerithiidae (Family) > Cerithiinae (Subfamily) > Cerithium (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Cerithium Bruguière, 1789 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cerithium caeruleum var. minima H. Fischer & Vignal, 1901 (original combination) Cerithium tuberculatum Lamarck, 1822 (original combination) Clypeomorus caeruleum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1855) (chresonym) Vertagus schroteri Mörch, 1852 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Indo-Pacific Marine Molluscs, available online at http://clade.ansp.org/obis/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Cerithium caeruleum var. minima H. Fischer & Vignal, 1901 accepted as Cerithium caeruleum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Funzi Island [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Msambweni Reef [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Habitat: rocky shores Shell up to 4 cm, with a single row of nodules and two or more rows of tiny beads on whorls. Occasionally with tooth on columella near a reduced anal canal. Colour dirty greyish-white, with white aperture. Habitat: on rocks in the mid-eulittoral zone and deeper. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997); tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Remark: Family 'Cerithidae' in Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216702 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Cerithium caeruleum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216702 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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