Species Oxymeris cerithina (Lamarck, 1822)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Terebra cerithina Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [288].

  Type data:

   Lectotype MHNG 1102/26/1, "Timor Sea, Indonesia".
• Terebra pulchra Hinds, R.B. 1844. Descriptions of new shells, collected during the voyage of the Sulphur, and in the Mr. Cumings late visit to the Philippines. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11: pls 41-55 [151].

  Type data:

   Holotype 1844.6.7.81, "Marquesas Is.".
• Terebra spaldingi Pilsbry, H.A. 1921. Marine Mollusks of Hawaii VIII-XIII. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 72: 296-328 [308, pl. 12, fig. 13].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP 177044, Off Honolulu, Hawaii, 6-8 fms.

 

Generic Combinations

• Abretiella cerithina (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Oyama, K. & Takemura, Y. 1961. The Molluscan Shells. Tokyo : Resource Exploitation Institute Vol. 5. [fig. 8]
• Perirhoe cerithina (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [25, pls 9, 51]
• Terebra (Abretiella) cerithina Lamarck, 1822. —
  Shikama, T. 1964. Selected shells of the world illustrated in colours. Tokyo : Hokuryu-Kan Vol. 2 pp. 1-212. [125, pl. 101, fig. 6]
• Oxymeris cerithina (Lamarck, 1822). —
  Severns, M. 2011. Shells of Hawaiian Islands: the sea shells. The verifiable species and their described variants illustrated by 2828 images on 225 plates. Hachenheim, Germany : ConchBooks.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo Pacific, from Red Sea to Hawaii and Marquesas Islands. Coral Sea (e.g. C.324780) and Cocos (Keeling) Islands records based on specimens in the Australian Museum reference collection

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), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Coral Sea Islands Territory

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Bouchet, P. 2012. Oxymeris cerithina (Lamarck, 1822). In: MolluscaBase (2017). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596963 (Accessed on 21 Apr 2017)

Bratcher, T. & Cernohorsky, W.O. 1987. Living Terebras of the World. A Monograph of the Recent Terebridae of the World. Melbourne, Florida & Burlington : American Malacologists Inc. 240 pp. [47, pl. 6, figs 19a-c, Color pl. C, fig. 1] (as T. cerithina)

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. [395]

Terryn, Y. 2007. A collectors guide to Recent Terebridae. Germany and Belgium : Conchbooks & NaturalArt 57 pp., 65 pls. [25, pl. 9, figs 1-10, pl. 51] (as Perirhoe cerithina)

Terryn, Y. & M. Holford 2008. The Terebridae of Vanuatu with a revision of the genus "Granuliterebra" Oyama, 1961. Visaya supplement 3: 1-118 [45, text fig., pl. 18, figs 5-6]

Wells, F.E. 1994. Marine Molluscs of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin (No. 410): 1-22

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [224, pl. 52, fig. 2]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CONOIDEA	14-Mar-2013	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021		14-Feb-2012	MODIFIED
		10-Nov-2011	MODIFIED