Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order [unassigned] Caenogastropoda > Superfamily Cerithioidea > Family Cerithiidae > Subfamily Cerithiinae

Cerithium Bruguière, 1789

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cerithium (Hirtocerithium)*	Monterosato, 1910	synonym
*Drillocerithium*	Monterosato, 1910	synonym
*Gladiocerithium*	Monterosato, 1910	synonym
*Hirtocerithium*	Monterosato, 1910	synonym
*Lithocerithium*	Monterosato, 1910	synonym

Children

Cerithium alucastrum (Brocchi, 1814)
Cerithium egenum Gould, 1849
Cerithium lividulum Risso, 1826
Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906
Cerithium nodulosum Bruguière, 1792
Cerithium protractum Bivona Ant. in Bivona And., 1838
Cerithium renovatum Monterosato, 1884
Cerithium scabridum Philippi, 1848

Literature

original description	Bruguière J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopdie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Pancoucke, Paris. Vol. 1, part 1, p. 1-344 [june 1789]; Vol. 1, part 2, p. 345-758 [13 Feb. 1792; dates after N. EVENHUIS, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207]; Atlas pl. 1-189 [1791]; pl. 190-286 [1797] pl. 287-390 [1798] pl. 391-488 [1816: edited by Deshayes]
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
subsequent type designation	ICZN 1978. Opinion 1109. Cerithium Bruguière, [1789] (Gastropoda): Designation of type species under the plenary powers Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 35(2): 97-98.

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Cerithium Bruguière, 1789. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137760