Biology:Cerithideopsilla

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Short description: Genus of gastropods


Cerithideopsilla
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Live individuals of Cerithideopsilla cingulata and Cerithideopsilla incisa (on the right), in Saikai, Nagasaki
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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]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Cerithideopsilla microptera (Kiener, 1842) is a synonym of Cerithidea microptera (Kiener, 1842)[clarification needed]

References

  1. Thiele (1929). Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde 1: page 206.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 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.
  3. 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

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q15991618 entry