Species Cerithium tenellum Sowerby, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cerithium tenellum Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [857, pl. 180, figs 88-90].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 19861802-11.
• Cerithium (Novae) hiberniae Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186. [857, pl. 180, figs 84-85].
• Cerithium filosum 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. [179] [not Cerithium filosum Philippi, 1849, nor Cerithium filosum Gould, 1849].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 19861711, Burias, Philippines.
• Cerithium tenuifilosum Sowerby, G.B. 1866. Untitled supplement to Sowerby, 1855. Monograph of the Genus Cerithium, Adanson. In Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or Monographs of Genera of Shells, 2(16):847-899, plates 176-186. London. containing only plate 12 [pl. 12, fig. 307].
• Cerithium tomlini Hedley, C. 1914. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 39: 695-755, pls 77-85 [Date published 26 Feb.] [717, pl. 85; fig. 89] [not Cerithium tomlini Preston, 1905].
• Cerithium mysterium Hedley, C. 1917. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part XIII. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 41: 680–719 [708].

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Cerithium (Clypeomorus) tenellum Sowerby, 1855. —
  Kaicher, S.D. 1956. Indo-Pacific Sea Shells, Toxoglossa (section 5). Washington D.C. : Published by the Author 11 pls. [pl. 3, fig. 13]
• Cerithium (Thericium) mysterium Hedley, 1917. —
  Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [52, pl. 13, fig. 9]
• Cerithium salebrosum auct. —
  Demond, J. 1957. Micronesian reef associated gastropods. Pacific Science 11(3): 275–341, fig. 2, pl. 1 [292, fig. 9]
• Cerithium (Proclava) kobelti auct. —
  MacNeil, F.S. 1960. Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 339: i-iv, 1-148, 19 pls [41, pl. 11, fig. 21]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific from Cocos Keeling to Johnston Atoll and Fiji. Also Coral Sea (AMS C.326285)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), 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), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral reef, marine, sand, 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 [179-185, figs 131-134, table 42]

Springsteen, F.J. & Leobrera, F.M. 1986. Shells of the Philippines. Manila : Carfel Seashell Museum 377 pp., 100 pls. [63]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [119, text fig.; pl. 17; fig. 8 a-d]

 

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)
		27-Sep-2011	MODIFIED