Species Cerithium interstriatum Sowerby, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium interstriatum Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [876, pl. 184, fig. 216].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 10971028112, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Cerithium clavis 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. 14, fig. 94].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 19861691.
• Cerithium thaanumi Pilsbry, H.A. & Vanatta, E.G. 1905. On Hawaiian Cerithiidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 57: 576 [97].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 85855, Hilo, Hawaii.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, from east Africa to Hawaiian Islands and French Polynesia. Also Lord Howe Island (AMS C.224399)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral, marine, mud-silt, planktotrophic larvae, sand, 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 [97-101, figs 64-66]

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. [122, fig. 45 R]

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

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	06-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		27-Sep-2011	MODIFIED