Cerion (gastropod)
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Drawing of a live individual of Cerion chrysalis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Superorder: | Eupulmonata |
Order: | Stylommatophora |
Infraorder: | Helicina |
Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
Family: | Cerionidae |
Genus: | Cerion Röding, 1798[2] |
Type species | |
Turbo uva | |
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.
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[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Cerion_Windley_Key.jpg/220px-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:
- Sánchez Roig, 1948[5]
- Torre & Clench, 1932[5]
- Cerion alberti Clench & Aguayo, 1949[5]
- Torre, 1929[5]
- [citation needed]
- (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896)[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1949[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1957[5]
- Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1895[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1951[5]
- Pilsbry & Torre, 1943[5]
- [citation needed]
- Aguayo & Torre, 1951[5]
- Bartsch, 1920
- Wurtz, 1950[5]
- Clench, 1948[5]
- Aguayo & Sánchez Roig, 1953[5]
- Wurtz, 1950[5]
- Cerion chrysalis(Ferussac in Beck, 1837)
- [citation needed]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1951[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- [citation needed]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- [citation needed]
- Torre in Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1899[5]
- (Küster, 1841)[5]
- (Pfeiffer, 1847)[5]
- Cerion disforme Clench & Aguayo, 1946[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- [citation needed]
- Cerion geophilum Clench & Aguayo, 1949[5]
- (Küster, 1844)
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- [citation needed]
- (Pfeiffer, 1852)[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Cerion hessei Clench & Aguayo, 1949[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1949[5]
- Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896[5]
- (A. Binney, 1851)
- (Sowerby, 1876)[5]
- Aguayo & Torre, 1951[5]
- (Shuttleworth in Poey, 1858)[5]
- Cerion iostomum (Pfeiffer, 1854)[5]
- Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1895[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1949[5]
- (Pfeiffer, 1854)[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1951[5]
- Pilsbry, 1902[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Torre in Pilsbry, 1927[5]
- (Pfeiffer, 1839)[5]
- Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896[5]
- (Pfeiffer, 1854)[5]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- (Küster, 1845)[5]
- (Bruguière, 1792)[5]
- (Pfeiffer, 1839)[5]
- Cerion nanus (Maynard, 1889)[6]
- Aguayo, 1953[5]
- [citation needed]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1951[5]
- Sánchez Roig, 1948[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Pilsbry, 1902[5]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- Torre, 1929[5]
- Cerion paucisculptum Clench & Aguayo, 1952[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1951[5]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- Dall, 1895[5]
- Cerion politum (Maynard, 1896)[5]
- Cerion prestoni Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- Aguayo & Sánchez Roig, 1953[5]
- [citation needed]
- Torre in Welch, 1934[5]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1951[5]
- Gould, 1997
- [citation needed]
- Cerion saetiae Sánchez Roig, 1948[5]
- (Pfeiffer, 1847)[5]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- [citation needed]
- Torre in Pilsbry, 1927[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- Blanes in Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898[5]
- (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1860)[5]
- Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[5]
- (Poey, 1858)[5]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1952[5]
- [citation needed]
- [citation needed]
- Sánchez Roig, 1951[5]
- (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1870)[5]
- Blanes in Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898[5]
- Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1895[5]
- Cerion uva (Linnaeus, 1758)[7]
- [citation needed]
- Clench & Aguayo, 1951[5]
- (Poey, 1858)[5]
- Bartsch, 1920
- Torre, 1929[5]
- (Küster, 1855)[5]
- Dall, 1907
- [citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Cerion: a web-based resource for Cerion research and identification". accessed 5 April 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Cerion Röding, 1798". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Baker F. C. (1903). Shells of land and water; a familiar introduction to the study of the mollusks. Chicago, A.W. Mumford, page 48.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
- ^ "Cerion". Smithsonian Institution, accessed 17 May 2016.
- ^ "Cerion uva (Linnaeus, 1758)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species.
External links[]
- Delimitation and phylogenetics of the diverse land-snail family Urocoptidae (gastropoda: Pulmonata) based on 28S rRNA sequence data: a reunion with cerion.
- http://invertebrates.si.edu/Cerion/species_list.cfm
- Yesha Shrestha, Herman H. Wirshing, M. G. Harasewych : The Genus Cerion (Gastropoda: Cerionidae) in the Florida Keys; PLOS|ONE September 17, 2015
Categories:
- Cerionidae
- Taxa named by Peter Friedrich Röding