Species Cerithium rostratum Sowerby, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium rostratum Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [861, pl. 158; fig. 104].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 19861741, Philippines, herein restricted to Cebu.
• Cerithium gracile Pease, W.H. 1861. Descriptions of 47 new species of shells from the Sandwich Islands, in the collection of H. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1860: 431-438 [432].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1961173, Sandwich Island.
• Cerithium amabile Bayle, E. 1880. Liste rectificative de quelques noms de genres et d'espèces. Journal de Conchyliologie 28: 240-251 [246].
• Cerithium albovaricosum Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis. [Part I. Collections of Melanesia, pp. 34–116; Part II. Collections from the Western Indian Ocean, pp. 487–508; explanation of plates pp. 657–659] [501].

 

Generic Combinations

• Colina (Ischnocerithium) rostrata (Sowerby, 1855). —
  Thiele, J. 1929. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 1(Part 1) 376 pp. [212]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium (Ischnocerithium) rostratum Sowerby, 1855. —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. Marine Shells of the Pacific. Sydney : Pacific Publications Vol. 2 411 pp., 68 pls. [66, pl. 14, fig. 6]
• Cerithium (Ptychocerithium) rostratum Sowerby, 1855. —
  Abrard, R. 1942. Mollusques pleistocènes de la Côte Française des Somalis recueillis par E. Aubert de la Rue. Archives du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 6 43: 8 pl. [60, pl. 6, fig. 27]
• Cerithium ravidum Philippi, 1849. —
  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] [15, pl. 1, fig. 8]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea and east Africa to Hawaiian Islands and Tuamotus Also Coral Sea region 18 (AMS C.356943); Cocos Island (AMS C.381555); Christmas island (AMS C.381556)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Lord Howe Province (14), Northeast Province (18), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Algal substrate, marine, on macrophytes, 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 [158-164, figs 114-117, Table 37]

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 O]

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

 

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)
		15-Aug-2014	MODIFIED