WoRMS taxon details
Cerithium uncinatum (Gmelin, 1791)
574967 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:574967)
accepted
Species
Cerithium famelicum C. B. Adams, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Murex uncinatus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Murex uncinatus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cerithium uncinatum (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574967 on 2025-11-21
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Murex uncinatus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details] 
original description (of Cerithium famelicum C. B. Adams, 1852) Adams, C. B. (1852). Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on their synonymy, station, and habitat. <em>Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.</em> 5: 229-549., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16328703
page(s): 376 [details]
basis of record Keen, A. M. (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls. [details]
original description (of Cerithium famelicum C. B. Adams, 1852) Adams, C. B. (1852). Catalogue of shells collected at Panama, with notes on their synonymy, station, and habitat. <em>Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York.</em> 5: 229-549., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16328703
page(s): 376 [details]
basis of record Keen, A. M. (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls. [details]
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To Conchology (Cerithium uncinatum)
To Conchology (Cerithium uncinatum)
To Conchology (Cerithium uncinatum)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cerithium uncinatum)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Malacopics (Cerithium uncinatum (Gmelin,1791) Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Sámara)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To Conchology (Cerithium uncinatum)
To Conchology (Cerithium uncinatum)
To Conchology (Cerithium uncinatum)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cerithium uncinatum)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To Malacopics (Cerithium uncinatum (Gmelin,1791) Costa Rica, Guanacaste, Sámara)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS