Cerion (gastropod)

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Cerion
Temporal range: Early Miocene–Recent [1]
Cerion chrysalis drawing.jpg
Drawing of a live individual of Cerion chrysalis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicina
Superfamily: Urocoptoidea
Family: Cerionidae
Genus: Cerion
Röding, 1798 [2]
Type species
Turbo uva
Linnaeus, 1758 [3]
Species

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Cerion is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cerionidae, sometimes known as the peanut snails. The genus is endemic to the Caribbean region.

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The name Cerion is based on the Greek word kerion , signifying honeycomb, and is given to these shells because the form of the shell resembles that of a beehive; hence they were at one time known as beehive shells. [4]

The fossil range of Cerion is possibly from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, or the early Miocene of Florida. [1] Records of Cerion in Pleistocene are rare. [1]

Species

Five live but aestivating Cerion snails on limestone wall of Windley Key Fossil Quarry (with two other non-Cerion snails), Florida Cerion Windley Key.jpg
Five live but aestivating Cerion snails on limestone wall of Windley Key Fossil Quarry (with two other non-Cerion snails), Florida

Species within the genus Cerion include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Cerion: a web-based resource for Cerion research and identification". accessed 5 April 2011.
  2. ↑ Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg. page 90.
  3. ↑ "Cerion Röding, 1798". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
  4. ↑ Baker F. C. (1903). Shells of land and water; a familiar introduction to the study of the mollusks. Chicago, A.W. Mumford, page 48.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine . Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  6. ↑ "Cerion". Smithsonian Institution, accessed 17 May 2016.
  7. ↑ "Cerion uva (Linnaeus, 1758)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
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