Bittium | |
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Drawing from Hartling 1886, two views of a shell of Bittium reticulatum | |
Scientific classification | |
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] | |
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Bittium is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the horn snails. [2]
This genus is found worldwide.
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Species in the genus Bittium include: [3]
Species brought into synonymy:
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