Ceratia

Ceratia
Ceratia proxima shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Iravadiidae
Genus:	Ceratia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1852 [1]

Ceratia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks the family Iravadiidae. ^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Ceratia include:

• † Ceratia dissoluta Weichmann, 1874 ^[2]
• † Ceratia dufresnoyi (Des Moulins, 1868) - synonym: Ceratia suturalis Cossmann & Peyrot, 1919 ^[2]
• Ceratia francisca Lima, Júnior, Guimarães & Dominguez, 2016 ^[2]
• † Ceratia meridionalis Lozouet, 2015 ^[2]
• Ceratia nagashima Fukuda, 2000 ^[2]
• Ceratia pachia (Watson, 1886) ^[2]
• † Ceratia pliocenica Ceregato & Tabanelli, 2005 ^[2]
• Ceratia proxima (Forbes & Hanley, 1850) - type species of the genus Ceratia, synonym: Ceratia altimirai Nordsieck, 1982 ^[2]
• Ceratia sergipana Lima, Júnior, Guimarães & Dominguez, 2016 ^[2]
• † Ceratia sternbergensis R. Janssen, 1978 ^[2]

Synonyms

• Ceratia watsoni Hornung & Mermod, 1927 is a synonym of Monotygma watsoni (Hornung & Mermod, 1927) ^[2]

References

1. Adams H. & Adams A. (1852). "On a new Arrangement of British Risooæ". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)10: 358-359.
2. Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Ceratia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1852. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138082 on 2016-06-17