Bittium

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Bittium
Drawing from Hartling 1886, two views of a shell of Bittium reticulatum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Cerithiidae
Genus: Bittium
Leach in Gray, 1847[1]
Type species
Strombiformis reticulatus
da Costa, 1778
Synonyms[2]
  • Bittium (Bittium) Gray, 1847· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bittium (Brachybittium) Weisbord, 1962· accepted, alternate representation
  • Bittium (Rasbittium) Gründel, 1976 (junior objective synonym of Manobittium)
  • Cerithiolum Tiberi, 1869 (junior objective synonym of Bittium)
  • Cerithium (Bittium) Gray, 1847
  • Dahlakia Biggs, 1971
  • Inobittium Monterosato, 1917
  • Manobittium Monterosato, 1917

Bittium is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the horn snails.[2]

  1. ^ Leach (1847). Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 20: 270.
  2. ^ a b Gofas, S. (2011). Bittium Leach in Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137758 on 8 February 2011