Cerithidea | |
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A live Cerithidea quoyii | |
Scientific 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
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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]