Cerithiopsis | |
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Shell of Cerithiopsis paucispiralis | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Clade: | Hypsogastropoda |
Family: | Cerithiopsidae |
Genus: | Cerithiopsis Forbes & Hanley, 1851 |
Type species | |
Murex tubercularis Montagu, 1803 | |
Synonyms | |
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Cerithiopsis is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Cerithiopsidae. [1]
This genus occurs in the Caribbean Sea including Cuba, in the Atlantic Ocean including the Cape Verde islands and Angola and in the Indian Ocean including the Aldabra Atoll.
Species within the genus Cerithiopsis include:
Teinostoma is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Teinostomatidae.
Cerithiopsidae is a family of very small sea snails in the informal group Ptenoglossa. Members of this family are known as cerithiopsids.
Mitrella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove shells or dove snails.
Daphnella is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Mangelia is a large genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Parviturbo is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Skeneidae.
Melanella is a genus of very small ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.
Onoba is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.
Rissoina is a large genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs, in the family Rissoinidae.
Seila is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs or micromolluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Cerithiella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Newtoniellidae.
Horologica is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Joculator is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae. This genus was described by Hedley in 1909.
Turbonilla is a large genus of ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Triphora is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Triphorinae of the family Triphoridae.
Vitrinella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Vitrinellidae.
Costulopsis is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.
Cyclostremiscus is a genus of small sea snails in the family Tornidae.
Prolixodens is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiopsidae.