Species Cerithium coralium Kiener, 1841

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium coralium Kiener, L.C. 1841. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Balliere Vol. 5. [pl. 8, fig. 3] [Dufresne' Kiener, 1841].

  Type data:

   Neotype USNM 634420, Tap, Caroline Islands.
• Cerithum granosum Kiener, L.C. 1841. Spécies général et Iconographie des coquilles vivantes, comprenant la collection du Muséum d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, la collection de Lamarck, celle du Prince Massena (appartenant maintenant a M. le Baron B. Delessert) et les découvertes récentes des voyageurs. Paris : Balliere Vol. 5. [pl. 4 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Lectotype Timor, erroneously cited "Red Sea" in description.
• Cerithium ustum Hombron, J.B. & Jacquinot, H. 1848. Atlas d'Histoire Naturelle Zoologie, Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Oceanie … Mollusques et Zoophytes. Paris plates 9, 11-25. [Date published March: plates 13, 15, 18, 20 not published] [pl. 23, figs 18,19].

  Type data:

   Holotype Solomon Islands.

  Secondary source:

   Rousseau, L. 1854. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée , exécuté ... pendant ... 1837-1840, sous le commandemant de M.J. Dumont d'Urville ... publié ... sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, etc. 5: Zoologie. Description des mollusques, coquilles et zoophytes. Paris : Publisher unknown 132 pp. [100].
• Cerithium mitraeforme Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [873, pl. 183, fig. 190].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1986173.
• Cerithium ickei Martin, K. 1914. Die Fauna des Obereocans von Nanggulan, auf Java. Sammlung des Geologischen Reichsmuseums in Leiden 1 2(4): 107-178 [161-162] [not Cerithium ickei Vignal, 1908].

  Type data:

   Holotype ST107566, Miocene of East Borneo.
• Cerithium nanggulanense Vignal, L. 1915. Rectifications de nomenclature. Revue Critique de Paléozoologie Paris 1915 (2): 93 [93].
• Cerithium duffieldi Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [278].
• Cerithium (Thericium) ruppelli Ladd, H.S. 1972. Cenozoic fossil mollusks from western Pacific islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae). United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 532: 1-79, 20 pls [38, pl. 9, fig. 16] [junior homonym; not Cerithium ruppelli Philippi, 1848].
• Cerithium rubus Popenoe, W.P. & Kleinpell, R.M. 1978. Age and stratigraphic significance for Lyellian correlation of the fauna of the Vigo formation, Luzon, Philippines. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences 129: 1-73 [pl. 2, fig. 23] [junior homonym; not Cerithium rubus Martyn, 1786].

 

Generic Combinations

• Clypeomorus coralium (Kiener, 1841). —
  Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [62, pl. 13, fig. 17]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium (Thericium) coralium Kiener, 1841. —
  Wissema, G.G. 1947. Young Tertiary and Quarternary gastropoda from the Island of Nias (Malay Archipelago). PhD Thesis. Leiden : Rijksuniversiteit. [61-62]
• Cerithium corallinum sic. —
  Sowerby, G.B. 1865. Monograph of the genus Cerithium. Reeve's manuscript. pls 1-20 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 15. [pl. 5, fig. 29]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from India to Fiji. There appears to be a living population in Manly Lagoon, NSW, and the species becomes more common northwards from there (Willan 2013)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Estuary, intertidal, mangroves, marine, mud-silt, sand.

 

General References

Beechey, D. 2005. Cerithium coralium Kiener, 1841. http://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Cerithiidae/Pages/Cerithium_coralium.htm (date accessed 30-9-11)

Houbrick, R.S. 1992. Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 510: 1-211 [61-68, figs 37-41]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [116, pl. 17, figs 12 a-b]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	17-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		27-Sep-2011	MODIFIED