Species Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium pusillum Jay, J.C. 1839. A catalogue of the recent shells arranged according to the Lamarckian system, together with descriptions of new and rare species contained in the collection of John C. Jay. New York & London : Wiley & Putnam Third Edition, 126 pp. [75] [nomen nudum; not Cerithium pusillum Pfeffer, 1840, nor Cerithium pusillum Gould, 1849].
• Cerithium lacteum Kiener, L.C. 1842. 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 : Ballière Vol. 7 pp. 1-130. [58, pl. 7, fig. 3] [junior homonym; not Cerithium lacteum Philippi, 1836].
• Cerithium papillosum 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. 215] [junior homonym; not Cerithium papillosum Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1842].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 19071028222, none cited.
• Cerithium spiculum Hedley, C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. Part 1. Gastropoda. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3(7): 395–488, 49 text figs [Date published March 6] [433, fig. 21] [junior homonym; not Cerithium spiculum Eudes-Deslongchamps, 1842].

  Type data:

   Lectotype C5941, Nuklailai, Funafuti, Ellice Islands.
• Cerithium voyi Pilsbry, H.A. & Vanatta, E.G. 1905. On Hawaiian Cerithiidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 57: 576 [787, fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 58192, Flint Island, Line Islands.
• Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry, H.A.& Vanatta, E.G. 1906. On some Pacific Cerithiidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 57(1905): 787-789 pp., figs 781-784 [788, fig. 4] [replacement name; for Cerithium pusillum Nuttall, 1852 and Cerithium lacteum Kiener, 1842].
• Cerithium collacteum Iredale, T. 1929. Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 9(3): 261–297, pls 30–31 [29 June 1929] [278].

 

Generic Combinations

• Lampania lactea (Kiener, 1842). —
  Paetel 1887. Catalog der Conchylien-Sammlung. I. Die Cephalopoden, Pteropoden und Meeres-Gastropoden. Berlin, Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel. Berlin : Verlag von Gerbrüder Paetel pp. 1-16, 1-639. [351]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium (Semivertagus) lacteum Kiener, 1842. —
  Thiele, J. 1929. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 1(Part 1) 376 pp. [213]
• Cerithium (Liocerithium) lacteum Keiner, 1842. —
  Sturany, R. 1904. Gastropoden des Rothen Meeres. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse 23: 19 (227), Tafel IV, figs 8a–8b, sp. 22 [53]
• Cerithium (Semivertagus) nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906.
• Cerithium (Liocerithium) nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906. —
  Adam, W. & Leloup, E. 1938. Resultats scientifiques du voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Prosobranchia et Opistobranchia. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 6 2(19): 1-209, pls 1-8 [106, pl. 5]
• Cerithium pusillum Nuttall in Jay, 1939. —
  Jay, J.C. 1839. A catalogue of the recent shells arranged according to the Lamarckian system, together with descriptions of new and rare species contained in the collection of John C. Jay. New York & London : Wiley & Putnam Third Edition, 126 pp. [75]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-West Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaiian Islands and Pitcairn Island. Also Coral Sea (AMS C.333760)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, intertidal, marine, rocks, sand, shallow subtidal, tide pools.

 

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 [121-126, figs 86-88]

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. [123, fig. 45 H]

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	16-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		22-Nov-2013	MODIFIED