African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822

WoRMS taxon details

Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822

To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-36190)

AphiaID

216669 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216669)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cerithium Bruguière, 1789

Original name

Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822

Synonymised names

Cerithium (Thericium) mutatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 · alternative representation (chresonym)

Cerithium adansoni Bruguière, 1792 sensu Kiener, 1842 · unaccepted (original combination)

Cerithium album Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848 · unaccepted (original combination)

Cerithium mutatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 · unaccepted (original combination)

Cerithium rubus Deshayes, 1843 · unaccepted (original combination)

Cerithium tuberculiferum Pease, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (invalid; not Binkhorst, 1861)

Gourmya echinata (Lamarck, 1822) · unaccepted (chresonym)

Murex serratus W. Wood, 1818 · unaccepted (junior secundairy homonym of...)

junior secundairy homonym of Cerithium serratum Bruguière, 1792

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 69 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in Madagascan Exclusive Economic Zone (origin: native - non-endemic) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cerithium echinatum Lamarck, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216669 on 2025-07-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2012-07-11 02:08:44Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2020-04-03 19:51:05Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 69 [details]

original description (of Cerithium adansoni Bruguière, 1792 sensu Kiener, 1842) Kiener, L. C. (1839-1842). Kiener L.C. 1839-1842. Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 5. Famille des Canalifères. Première partie. Genres Cérite (Cerithium), Adanson pp. 1-104, pl. 1-32 [pp. 1-32 (1841), 33-104 (1842); pl. 1-32 (1841)]; Pleurotome (Pleurotoma), Lamarck, pp. 1-84, pl. 1-27 [pp. 1-16 (1839), 17-84 (1840), pl. 1-27 (1839)]; Fuseau (Fusus), Lamarck, pp. 1-62, pl. 1-30, 17bis [pp. 1-62 (1840); pl. 2-7, 12, 15-17, 17bis, 22-23, 25 (1839); pl. 1, 8-11, 13-14, 18-21, 24, 26-30: (1840)]. Paris, Rousseau & J.B. Baillière., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19762 [details]

original description (of Cerithium album Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848) Hombron, J. B. & Jacquinot, H. (1848 [November]). Atlas d'Histoire Naturelle. Zoologie par MM. Hombron et Jacquinot, chirurgiens de l'expédition. in: Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée pendant les années 1837-1838-1839-1840 sous le commandement de M. Dumont-D'Urville capitaine de vaisseau publié sous les auspices du département de la marine et sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de Vaisseau, commandant de La Zélée. Livraison 26. Mollusques pls 17, 21, 23, 24, 25.
page(s): Pl 23, fig. 25 [details]

original description (of Cerithium mutatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby I, G. B. (1821-1834). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students, in conchology and geology. Published in 42 parts. Vol. 1, pls 1-126 [1821-1825]; vol. 2, pls 127-262 + text (unpaginated) [1825-1834]. London: G. B. Sowerby. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45486673
page(s): 42, [214], fig. 6. [details]

original description (of Cerithium rubus Deshayes, 1843) Deshayes, G. P.; Milne Edwards, H. (1843). Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent, par J. B. P. A. de Lamarck. Deuxième édition, Tome neuvième. Histoire des Mollusques. J. B. Baillière: Paris. 728 pp. [Deshayes sole author of the new molluscan names]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64019 [details]

original description (of Murex serratus W. Wood, 1818) Wood W. (1818). Index testaceologicus or a catalogue of shells British and foreign arranged according to the Linnean system. London pp. XIV + 188 + 39 pl: [details]

original description (of Cerithium tuberculiferum Pease, 1869) Pease, W. H. (1869). Description of new species of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 5: 64-79., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15978904
page(s): 76 [details]

basis of record Drivas, J. & Jay, M. (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection les beautés de la nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. pp. 1-160. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Other

context source (HKRMS) Tsi, C. Y. & Ma, S. T. (1982). A preliminary checklist of the marine gastropoda and Bivalvia (Mollusca) of Hong Kong and southern China. In: Proceedings of the first international marine biological workshop: The marine flora and fauna of Hong Kong and southern China (ed. Morton, B.), vol. 1, pp431-458. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 40 [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Hasegawa K. (2017). Family Cerithiidae. Pp. 788-793, in: T. Okutani (ed.), Marine Mollusks in Japan, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp. [details]