Species Cerithium dialeucum Philippi, 1849

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium dialeucum Philippi, R.A. 1849. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter mithufte meherer deutscher Conchyliologen. Cassel : Theodor Fischer Vol. 3 pp. 1-88. [Vol. 3 published in 4 sections from 1847 to 1850] [14, pl. 1, fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Neotype USNM 862619, S side of Mathuata Island, N coast of Viti Levu, Fiji.
• Cerithium suturale Philippi, R.A. 1849. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter mithufte meherer deutscher Conchyliologen. Cassel : Theodor Fischer Vol. 3 pp. 1-88. [Vol. 3 published in 4 sections from 1847 to 1850] [14, pl. 1, fig. 4].
• Cerithium striatum 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 16,17].

  Type data:

   Holotype New Zealand (in error, herein corrected and restriced to Viti Levu, Fiji).

  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 bicolor 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, fig. 14, 15].

  Type data:

   Holotype "New Zealand (in error, herein corrected and restricted to Viti Levu, Fiji").

  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. [99].
• Cerithium ravidum Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications Vol. 2 411 pp., 68 pls. [64, pl. 14, fig. 2] [junior homonym; not Cerithium ravidum Philippi, 1849].
• Cerithium tenellum Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [63] [junior homonym; not Cerithium tenellum Sowerby, 1855].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium (Proclava) auct. Kobelt; Dunker. —
  MacNeil, F.S. 1960. Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 339: i-iv, 1-148, 19 pls [41]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa to Samoa

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, mud-silt, on macroalgae, rocks, shallow subtidal.

 

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 [70-77, figs 45-50]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [117, pl. 17, fig. 2]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		15-Aug-2014	MODIFIED