African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Cerithidea Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

204619 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204619)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Potamididae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Original name

Cerithidea Swainson, 1840

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Species Cerithidea decollata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Cerithidea obtusa (Lamarck, 1822)
Species Cerithidea pliculosa (Menke, 1829) accepted as Cerithideopsis pliculosa (Menke, 1829)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 203, 342 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cerithidea Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204619 on 2026-03-05

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cerithidea Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204619 on 2026-03-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-11-30 17:20:53Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-07 06:51:43Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2011-04-02 19:01:32Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-01-05 20:19:00Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2021-03-08 14:21:54Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 203, 342 [details]

taxonomy source Reid D. G. (2014). The genus Cerithidea Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region. Zootaxa. 3775(1): 1-65. [12 March 2014]., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3775.1.1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Archiv-fuer-Molluskenkunde_105_0001-0423.pdf
page(s): 189 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cerithidea)
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To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1437339)
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1437341)
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