Appolloni, Massimo;Smriglio, Carlo;Amati, Bruno;Lugliè, Lorenzo;Nofroni, Italo;Tringali, Lionello P.;Mariottini, Paolo;Oliverio, Marco
Cerithiidae
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Species
cerithids
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderCaenogastropoda incertae sedis
- FamilyCerithiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5,778
- With media
- 900
- Family
- Cerithiidae
- Collections
- LACM, UWBM
- Recorded in
- United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Cerithioidea
- Image
- Rhinoclavis vertagus shell.jpg
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- Cerithiidae
- topic's main category
- Category:Cerithiidae
- taxon name
- Cerithiidae
- taxon rank
- family
- taxon common name
- Nadelschnecken
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Distribution
- Diet
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Subfamilies
- Genera
- References
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thumb|Fossil Bittium reticulatum. thumb|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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cerithiidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.