African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cerithium citrinum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855

AfReMaS taxon details

Cerithium citrinum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855

AphiaID

216692 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216692)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cerithium Bruguière, 1789

Original name

Cerithium citrinum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855

Environment

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

Original description

Sowerby, G. B. II. (1855). Monograph of the genus Cerithium, Adanson. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2 (16): 847–899, pl. 176–186. London, privately published. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11076091
page(s): 855 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cerithium citrinum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216692 on 2026-07-14

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cerithium citrinum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216692 on 2026-07-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-03-07 13:05:12Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

2010-04-30 06:01:06Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2012-07-11 02:08:44Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2017-08-14 08:06:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-04-03 19:51:05Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Sowerby, G. B. II. (1855). Monograph of the genus Cerithium, Adanson. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2 (16): 847–899, pl. 176–186. London, privately published. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11076091
page(s): 855 [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]

additional source Houbrick, R. S. (1992). Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 510: 1-211., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/5554
page(s): 42, figs 25-27 [details] Available for editors

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

additional source Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]

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]

additional source Fowler, O. (2016). Seashells of the Kenya coast. ConchBooks: Harxheim. Pp. 1–170.
page(s): 18, pl. 6, fig. 22 [details]