Cerithidea

Cerithidea
A live Cerithidea quoyii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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
Synonyms
  • Aphanistylus P. Fischer, 1884
  • Cerithidea (Cerithidea) Swainson, 1840
  • Cerithium (Cerithidea)
  • Phaenommia Mörch, 1860
  • Potamides (Aphanistylus) P. Fischer, 1884
  • Potamides (Cerithidea)

Cerithidea is a genus of medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails. [2]

  1. ^ Swainson J. W. (1840). Treat., Malacol. 203: 342.
  2. ^ 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