Cerithideopsis californica

Cerithideopsis californica
A shell of Cerithideopsis californica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Potamididae
Genus:	Cerithideopsis
Species:	C. californica
Binomial name
Cerithideopsis californica (Haldeman, 1840) [1]
Synonyms
List Cerithidea albonodosaGould & Carpenter, 1857 Cerithidea californica(Haldeman, 1840) Cerithidea mazatlanica(H. F. Carpenter, 1857) Cerithidea pullata A. A. Gould, 1856 Cerithidea sacrata(A. Gould, 1849) Cerithidea valida(C. B. Adams, 1852) Cerithium (Potamis) californicumHaldeman, 1840 Cerithium (Potamis) sacratumGould, 1849 Cerithium aguayoiClench, 1934 Cerithium californicumHaldeman, 1840 Cerithium fortiusculumBayle, 1880 Cerithium sacratumGould, 1849 Cerithium varicosumG. B. Sowerby I, 1834 Potamides (Cerithidea) californica(Haldeman, 1840)

Cerithideopsis californica, common name the California hornsnail ^[2] or the California horn snail, ^[3] is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae. ^[4] This series was previously known as Cerithidea californica.

Description

ssp. albonodosa

The shell is turriform in shape and about 1 inch (25 mm) in length. ^[1]

Distribution

The distribution of Cerithideopsis californica is from central California, USA to Baja California Sur, Mexico. ^[3]

The type locality is "California, in brackish water". ^[1]

Ecology

Cerithideopsis californica lives in salt-marsh dominated estuaries. ^[3]

The snails primarily feed on benthic diatoms. ^[3]

Throughout its range in California, these snails grow and reproduce from spring through fall (March–October) and cease growth and reproduction during the winter (November–February). ^[3] Maximum longevity for these snails is at least 6–10 years, and this appears to be the case for uninfected as well as infected snails. ^[3]

At least 18 trematode species parasitically castrate California horn snails. ^[3] A trematode infects a snail with a miracidium larva that either swims to infect the snail, or hatches after the snail ingests the trematode egg. ^[3] After infection, the trematode parthenitae clonally replicate and produce free-swimming offspring (cercariae). ^[3] These offspring infect second intermediate hosts (various invertebrates and fishes) where they form cysts (metacercariae). ^[3] The trematodes infect bird final hosts when birds eat second intermediate hosts. ^[3]

California horn snails are common in the Morro Bay estuary of California, particularly in the ponds on the south end of Wednesday Island.

References

This article incorporates CC-BY-2.0 text from the reference ^[3]

1. Haldeman S. S. (1840). A monograph of the Limniades and other freshwater univalve shells of North America. number 1, Philadelphia, J. Dobson. an unnumbered page.
2. "Cerithidea californica (Haldeman, 1840)". ITIS, accessed 10 February 2011.
3. Hechinger R. F. (2010). "Mortality affects adaptive allocation to growth and reproduction: field evidence from a guild of body snatchers". BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 136. doi : 10.1186/1471-2148-10-136 .
4. WoRMS. "Cerithideopsis californica (Haldeman, 1840)". World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 20 March 2014.

• Reid, D. G. & Claremont, M. (2014). "The genus Cerithideopsis Thiele, 1929 (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region". Zootaxa. 3779 (1): 61–80. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3779.1.8. PMID   24871714.

Further reading

• Driscoll A. L. (1972). "Structure and function of the alimentary tract of Batillaria zonalis and Cerithidea californica: style-bearing mesogastropods". Veliger14: 375-386.
• Lafferty K. D. (1993). "Effects of parasitic castration on growth, reproduction and population dynamics of the marine snail Cerithidea californica". Marine Ecology Progress Series96: 229-237. doi : 10.3354/meps096229.
• Lafferty K. D. (1993). "The marine snail, Cerithidea californica, matures at smaller sizes where parasitism is high". Oikos 68(1): 3-11. JSTOR.
• Martin W. E. (1972). "An annotated key to the cercariae that develop in the snail Cerithidea californica". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 71: 39-43.
• McCloy M. J. (1979). "Population regulation in the deposit feeding mesogastropod Cerithidea californica as it occurs in a San Diego salt marsh habitat". MS. University of California, San Diego.
• Race M. S. (1981). "Field ecology and natural history of Cerithidea californica (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) in San Francisco Bay". Veliger24: 18-27.
• Sousa W. P. (1983). "Host life history and the effect of parasitic castration on growth a field study of Cerithidea californica (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) and its trematode parasites". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 73(3): 273-296. doi : 10.1016/0022-0981(83)90051-5.
• Sousa W. P. (1993). "Size-dependent predation on the salt-marsh snail Cerithidea californica Haldeman". Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 166: 19-37.
• Sousa W. P & Gleason M. (1989). "Does parasitic infection compromise host survival under extreme environmental conditions: the case for Cerithidea californica (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)". Oecologia , Berlin 80: 456-464. doi : 10.1007/BF00380066.