Cerithideopsilla
Cerithideopsilla | |
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Live individuals of Cerithideopsilla cingulata and Cerithideopsilla incisa (on the right), in Saikai, Nagasaki | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
Family: | Potamididae |
Genus: | Cerithideopsilla Thiele, 1929[1] |
Diversity[2] | |
16 species (only 4 of them described) |
Cerithideopsilla is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.[3]
Species
There are altogether 16 species within Cerithideopsilla, but as of January 2015 only four species are formally described:[2]
- Cerithideopsilla alata (Philippi, 1849)[2]
- Cerithideopsilla cingulata (Gmelin, 1791)[2]
- Cerithideopsilla conica (Blainville, 1829)[2]
- Cerithideopsilla incisa (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1848) - synonym: Cerithideopsilla djadjariensis (K. Martin, 1899)[2]
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cerithideopsilla microptera (Kiener, 1842) is a synonym of Cerithidea microptera (Kiener, 1842)
References
- ↑ Thiele (1929). Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde 1: page 206.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ozawa T., Yin W., Fu C., Claremont M., Smith L. & Reid D. G. (2015). "Allopatry and overlap in a clade of snails from mangroves and mud flats in the Indo-West Pacific and Mediterranean (Gastropoda: Potamididae: Cerithideopsilla)". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 114(1): 212-228. doi:10.1111/bij.12401.
- ↑ Reid, David G. (2013). Cerithideopsilla Thiele, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446427 on 2014-03-21
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