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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CERITHIIDAE: CERITHIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Cerithiidae (Family)
> Cerithiinae (Subfamily)
> Cerithium (Genus)
> nesioticum (Species)
Images: Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
CERITHIIDAE: CERITHIINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order)
> Cerithioidea (Superfamily)
> Cerithiidae (Family)
> Cerithiinae (Subfamily)
> Cerithium (Genus)
> nesioticum (Species)
Details: Cerithium nesioticum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1906
Size/Grows to:
Length 22mm
Distribution:
Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and throughout the Tropical Western Pacific. Kermadec Islands (Raoul), from 15-25m
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.218)
  • Houbrick, R.S. 1992 Monograph of the genus Cerithium Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia), Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 510 (p.121)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil