Species Cerithium nodulosum Bruguière, 1792

• Cerithium nodulosum Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [478].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG 190713, "mer Rouge; l Ocean Asatique; Isle d Amboine" here restricted to Ambon Island, Indonesia.
• Cerithium adansonii Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i–xviii, 757 pp. [479].

  Type data:

   Holotype.
• Cerithium curvirostra Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls. [pl. 35, fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Lectotype "Eastern Seas and Persian Gulf".
• Murex tuberosus Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, arranged according to the Linnaean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. London : John and Arthur Arch 2 volumes 1092 + 29 pp. [749].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Amboina.
• Murex nodulosus Wood, W. 1818. Index testaceologicus; or a catalogue of shells, British and foreign, arranged according to the Linnean system; with the Latin and English names. references to figures, and places where found. London : Privately printed 38 pls, 189. [131, no.147].
• Cerithium erythraeonense Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [70].

  Type data:

   Holotype MHNG 1097/19, Red Sea.
• Cerithium tuberosum Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [855, pl. 178, fig. 49].
• Cerithium omissum Bayle, E. 1880. Liste rectificative de quelques noms de genres et d'espèces. Journal de Conchyliologie 28: 240-251 [250].
• Mathilda eurytima Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1896. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Part II. Journal of Conchology 8(9): 273–315, pls 9–11 [310, pl. 11].
• Contumax decollata 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] [437, fig. 25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype C5949.

 

Generic Combinations

• Contumax nodulosus (Bruguiere, 1792). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1952. Family Cerithiidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 2: 4 pp. [1]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium (Contumax) nodulosum Bruguière, 1792. —
  Kaicher, S.D. 1956. Indo-Pacific Sea Shells, Toxoglossa (section 5). Washington D.C. : Published by the Author 11 pls. [pl. 3, fig. 6]
• Cerithium nodulosum erythraeonense Lamarck, 1822. —
  Bosch, D. & Bosch, E. 1982. Seashells of Oman. England : Longman Group Ltd 206 pp. [49]
• Cerithium Adanson, 1757. —
  Adanson, M. 1757. Histoire du Sénégal, Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait en ce pays, pendant le années 1749-53. Paris : C.J.B. Bauche pp. 96 + 275, pls 19. [155, pl. 10, fig. 2]
• Murex aluco Born, 1778. —
  Born, I. von 1778. Testacea musei Caesarei Vindobonensis quae jussu Mariae Theresia Augustae disposuit et descripsit. Vindobonae : J.P. Krauss 442 pp. [321]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from east Africa to Society Islands Also Coral Sea (AMS C.142766)

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northeast Province (18), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northwest Transition (3), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, intertidal, marine, rubble, sand, veliger planktonic.

Extra Ecological Information

Egg capsules/masses benthic.

 

General References

Bieler, R. 1995. Mathildidae from New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia). pp. 595-641 in Bouchet, P. (ed.). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, 14. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 167: 1-654 [633]

Houbrick, R.S. 1992. Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 510: 1-211 [126-137, figs 89-96, Table 30]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [118, pl. 16; fig. 17]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [109, pl. 321] (Nodulose Coral Creeper)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [100, pl. 101A] (Giant Nodulose Creeper)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIIDAE	18-Feb-2015	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Feb-2015	MODIFIED