| Cerithidea | |
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| A live Cerithidea quoyii | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Potamididae |
| Genus: | Cerithidea Swainson, 1840[1] |
| Type species | |
| Melania lineolata Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833
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| Synonyms | |
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Cerithidea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails. [2]
- ^ Swainson J. W. (1840). Treat., Malacol. 203: 342.
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cerithidea Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204619 on 2020-08-01