Species Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium maculosum Mighels, J.W. 1845. Descriptions of shells from the Sandwich Islands and other localities. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 2: 18-25 [22] [junior homonym; not Cerithium maculosum Kiener, 1841].
• Cerithium nassoides Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [875].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1964411, Sandwich Islands.
• Cerithium minor Couturier, M. 1907. Étude sur les mollusques gastéropodes recueillis par L. G. Seurat dans les archipels de Tahiti, Paumotu et Gambier. Journal de Conchyliologie 55: 123–178 [155].

  Type data:

   Holotype Rikitea.
• Cerithium atromarginatum Dautzenberg, P. & Bouge, J.L. 1933. Les Mollusques Testacés Marins des Établissements Français de L'Océanie. Journal de Conchyliologie 77(2): 145-326 [304].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium (Thericium) atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933. —
  Rehder, H.A. 1980. The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascura) and Sala y Gómez. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 289: 1–167 [36]
• Cerithium (Conocerithium) atromarginatum Dautzenberg & Bouge, 1933. —
  Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [113]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from Red Sea and east Africa to Marshall Islands.. Also Lord Howe island (AMS C.059538); Coral Sea (AMS C.322684)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, exposed coast, intertidal, marine, rocky shore, sand.

 

General References

Houbrick, R.S. 1992. Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 510: 1-211 [25, 27, 29]

Kay, E.A. 1979. Hawaiian marine shells. Reef and shore fauna of Hawaii. Section 4 : Mollusca. Honolulu, Hawaii : Bishop Museum Press Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication Vol. 64(4) 653 pp. [121, fig. 45 F]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [116, text fig.]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	16-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		26-Nov-2013	MODIFIED