Bittium lacteum
creator: Gofas, Serge
creator: Neubauer, Thomas A.
date: 2026-08-25
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Bittium lacteum (R. A. Philippi, 1836)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Bittium lacteum (R. A. Philippi, 1836). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139051 on 2026-08-24
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2023-02-28T13:49:09Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Bittium lacteum (R. A. Philippi, 1836)
class: Gastropoda
family: Cerithiidae
genus: Bittium
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Bivona, And. (1838). Generi et specie di molluschi descritti dal Barone Antonio Bivona e Bernardi. Lavori postumi pubblicati dal figlio Andrea dottore in medicina con note ed aggiunte. Giornale di Scienze Lettere e Arti per la Sicilia. 61: 211-227 [stated date March 1838]; 63: 319-324 [stated date September 1838] [also as reprint, 16 pp, 1 pl., tipografia del Giornale Letterario, Palermo].
name published in: Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. xiv + 267 p., pls. 1-12. Sumptibus Simonis Schroppii et Sociorum. Berolini [Berlin].
name published in: 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.
name published in year: 1838
name published in year: 1836
name published in year: 1855
order: Caenogastropoda incertae sedis
parent name usage ID: 137758
phylum: Mollusca
scientific name authorship: (R. A. Philippi, 1836)
specific epithet: lacteum
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted