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WoRMS taxon details

Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933

AphiaID

216683 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216683)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cerithium Bruguière, 1789

Original name

Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933

Synonymised names

Cerithium (Conocerithium) atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933 · unaccepted

Cerithium (Thericium) atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Cerithium maculosum Mighels, 1845 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of C. maculosum Kiener, 1841; C....)

of C. maculosum Kiener, 1841; C. atromarginatum is a replacement name

Cerithium nassoides G. B. Sowerby II, 1855 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of C. nassoides Grateloup, 1832; C....)

of C. nassoides Grateloup, 1832; C. atromarginatum is a replacement name

Cerithium nassoides var. minor Couturier, 1907 · unaccepted > junior homonym (of many earlier Cerithium minor)

Environment

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

Original description

Dautzenberg P. & Bouge J.L. (1933). Les mollusques testacés marins des Etablissements Français de l'Océanie. Journal de conchyliologie. 77: 41-108; 145-326; 351-469.
page(s): 304 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Hawaii

type locality contained in Hawaii (origin: native - non-endemic) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216683 on 2026-07-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2002-07-21 12:48:32Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-04-30 06:01:06Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2012-07-11 02:08:44Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

2016-03-24 21:24:44Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2020-04-03 19:51:05Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Dautzenberg P. & Bouge J.L. (1933). Les mollusques testacés marins des Etablissements Français de l'Océanie. Journal de conchyliologie. 77: 41-108; 145-326; 351-469.
page(s): 304 [details]

original description (of Cerithium nassoides G. B. Sowerby II, 1855) 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): 875, pl. 183, figs 200, 201 [details]

original description (of Cerithium maculosum Mighels, 1845) Mighels, J. W. (1845). Descriptions of shells from the Sandwich Islands, and other localities. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 2: 18-25. Title page dated 1848., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9490702
page(s): 22 [details]

original description (of Cerithium nassoides var. minor Couturier, 1907) Couturier M. (1907). Etude sur les mollusques gastropodes recueillis par M. L.-G. Seurat dans les archipels de Tahiti, Paumotu et Gambier. Journal de Conchyliologie. 55(2): 123-178, pl. 2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16293099 [details]

basis of record 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): 25, figs 14-16 [details] Available for editors

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Other

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 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. 9 [details]

additional source Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 68: 21-74., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5656754n [details]