Apertural view of a shell of Rhinoclavis vertagus.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Cerithiidae Fleming, 1822[1]
Diversity[2]
71 extant species of Bittiinae
114 extant species of Cerithiinae
Fossil Bittium reticulatum.50 second video of snails (most likely Natica chemnitzi and Cerithium muscarum) feeding on the sea floor in the Gulf of California, Puerto Peñasco, Mexico
Cerithiidae, common name the cerithiids or ceriths, is a large family of medium-sized marine gastropods in the clade Sorbeoconcha.
^Fleming, John (1822). The philosophy of zoology2: 491.
^Strong E. E., Colgan D. J., Healy J. M., Lydeard C., Ponder W. F. & Glaubrecht M. (2011). "Phylogeny of the gastropod superfamily Cerithioidea using morphology and molecules". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society162(1): 43-89. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00670.x.
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