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Cerithidea

Gastropoda - Potamididae

Taxonomy

Cerithidea was named by Swainson (1840) [Sepkoski's age data: Q Plei R Sepkoski's reference number: 909]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Potamides (Cerithidea) by Martin (1916); it was reranked as Potomides (Cerithidea) by Clark (1918).

It was assigned to Potamides by Martin (1916); to Potomides by Clark (1918); to Cerithiidae by Clark and Arnold (1923) and Oostingh (1935); to Potamidinae by MacNeil (1960); to Cerithideidae by Houbrick (1988) and Pacaud and Le Renard (1995); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Potamididae by Ladd (1972), Shuto (1978), Wilson (1993), Todd (2001) and Bouchet et al. (2005).

Species

C. (Cerithidea), C. (Cerithideopsilla), C. (Cerithideopsis), C. anguillana, C. anticipata, C. boweni, C. costatus (syn. C. beattyi), C. decollata, C. pulchra (syn. C. solida), C. scalariformis, C. tokunariensis, C. valida, Potamides (Cerithidea) branneri, Potamides (Cerithidea) djadariensis, Potamides (Cerithidea) fluviatilis, Potamides (Cerithidea) sindiensis

Species lacking formal opinion data

C. kanpokuensis, C. microptera, C. obtusa, C. ohiroi

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1840	Cerithidea Swainson
1916	Potamides (Cerithidea) Martin p. 253
1918	Potomides (Cerithidea) Clark p. 171
1923	Cerithidea Clark and Arnold p. 163
1935	Cerithidea Oostingh p. 53
1960	Cerithidea MacNeil p. 39
1972	Cerithidea Ladd p. 26
1978	Cerithidea Shuto p. 117
1988	Cerithidea Houbrick p. 118
1993	Cerithidea Wilson p. 132
1995	Cerithidea Pacaud and Le Renard p. 156
2001	Cerithidea Todd
2002	Cerithidea Sepkoski
2005	Cerithidea Bouchet et al. pp. 46, 249

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa

Rank	Name	Author
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
superfamily	Cerithioidea	(Férussac 1819)
family	Potamididae	(Adams and Adams 1854)
genus	Cerithidea	Swainson 1840

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Cerithidea Swainson 1840

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Subg. Cerithidea (Cerithidea) Swainson 1840

†Cerithidea (Cerithidea) babylonica Martin 1883

†Cerithidea (Cerithidea) bandongenis Martin 1879

†Cerithidea (Cerithidea) puruensis Martin 1914

†Cerithidea (Cerithidea) tegalensis Oostingh 1935

Subg. Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) Thiele 1929

†Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) cheribonensis Martin 1906

Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) cingulatus Gmelin 1791

†Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) jenkinsi Martin 1879

†Cerithidea (Cerithideopsilla) preangerensis Martin 1899