Pseudovertagus aluco

Pseudovertagus aluco
Five views of a shell of Pseudovertagus aluco
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Cerithiidae
Genus: Pseudovertagus
Subgenus: Pseudovertagus
Species: P. aluco
Binomial name
Pseudovertagus aluco
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cerithium (Aluco) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cerithium (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cerithium (Vertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cerithium aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cerithium cumingii A. Adams in G.B. Sowerby II, 1855
  • Murex aluco Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
  • Murex coronatus Born, 1778
  • Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Rhinoclavis aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Strombus coronatus (Röding, 1798)
  • Vertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Vertagus cumingii (A. Adams in G.B. Sowerby II, 1855)

Pseudovertagus aluco, common name aluco vertagus or Cuming's cerith, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.[1][2]

Distribution

This species is present in the Indo-Pacific from the Eastern Africa to Philippines, and in Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia), the Samoan Islands and New Caledonia.[3][4]

Shell of Pseudovertagus aluco from Australia

Habitat

Pseudovertagus aluco can be found on sand-bars at the high tide level, on tidalflats, on clean sand and coralrubble.[5][6]

Description

Shell of Pseudovertagus aluco can reach a length of 45–95 millimetres (1.8–3.7 in).[3] This species possess high-spired shells with a small aperture and a few spiral rows of tubercles.

Behaviour

These sea snails usually extend their proboscis and foot deep into the sediments, rather than burrowing below the surface.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
  2. ↑ OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
  3. 1 2 Gastropods
  4. ↑ Sealife Base
  5. ↑ W. O. Cernohorsky THE TAXONOMY OF SOME INDO-PACIFIC MOLLUSCA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum
  6. 1 2 Jenny Sa ¨ lgeback and Enrico Savazzi Constructional morphology of cerithiform gastropods
  • Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systemae naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differetiis, synonymis, locis.v. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii 824 pp.
  • Born, I. von 1778. Index rerum naturalium Musei Caesarei Vindobonensis, pl. 1, Testacea. - Verzeichniss etc. Illust. Vindobonae. Vienna : J.P. Krauss xlii 458 pp.
  • Bruguière, M. 1792. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers. Paris : Panckoucke Vol. 1 i-xviii, 757 pp.
  • Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(IX-XV) pp. 257–484, pls 33-60.
  • Sowerby, G.B. 1855. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 2(16) 847-899, pls 176-186.
  • Kobelt, W. 1898. Die Gattung Cerithium Lam. 201-297, pls 37-47 in Küster, H.C., Martini, F.W. & Chemnitz, J.H. (eds). Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1.
  • Thiele, J. 1931. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 2 pp. 377–778.
  • Hirase, S. & Taki, I. 1951. A handbook of illustrated shells in natural colors from the Japanese Islands and adjacent territories. Tokyo : Bunkyokaku xxiv, 134 pp.
  • Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian Shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.
  • Cernohorsky, W.O. 1972. The taxonomy of some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 9: 195-204
  • Houbrick, R.S. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1-130
  • Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.

Bibliography

  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

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