Cerithidium is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cerithiidae.[1]

Cerithidium
Shell of † Cerithidium plebeium (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Cerithiidae
Genus: Cerithidium
Monterosato, 1884
Type species
Cerithium submammillatum
de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854
Synonyms[1]
  • Bittium (Cerithidium) Monterosato, 1884
  • Clathrofenella Kuroda & Habe, 1952

The genus has been used as valid for Indo-Pacific species following Hasegawa (1998), on the grounds that it is older than Clathrofenella Kuroda & Habe, 1952. However, the Mediterranean type species is a Bittium, for which reason this generic assignment should be revised. The opinion of Hasegawa (1998) and van Aartsen (2006) is followed here [1]

Species

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Species within the genus Cerithidium include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Cerithidium pusillum (Jeffreys, 1856): synonym of Bittium submammillatum (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854) synonym of Cerithidium submammillatum (De Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
  • Cerithidium reticulatum (A. Adams, 1860): synonym of Cerithidium fuscum (A. Adams, 1860)

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