Cerithium caeruleum

Cerith sand snail
Five views of a shell of Cerithium caeruleum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Cerithiidae
Genus: Cerithium
Species: C. caeruleum
Binomial name
Cerithium caeruleum
G.B. Sowerby II, 1855
Synonyms
  • Cerithium caeruleum var. minima H. Fischer & Vignal, 1901
  • Cerithium tuberculatum Lamarck, 1822
  • Clypeomorus caeruleum (G.B. Sowerby II, 1855)
  • Vertagus schroteri Mörch, 1852

Cerithium caeruleum, the Cerith sand snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae.[1]

Distribution

This species is widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific (Red Sea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Western India).[1][2][3]

Shell of Cerithium caeruleum from Tanzania

Habitat

These sea snails live in rocky shores in the mid-eulittoral zone and deeper.[1]

Description

Shells of Cerithium caeruleum can reach a length of 20–40 millimetres (0.79–1.57 in).[2] These shells show a few rows of nodules and tiny beads on whorls. The external surface of the shell may be brown, greyish-white or greenish, with a white aperture.[1]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Cerithium caeruleum G. B. Sowerby II, 1855". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Cerithium caeruleum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 December 2015.
  3. "Cerithium caeruleum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 16 December 2015.

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