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
	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]

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

^ ^a ^b Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
^ OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
^ ^a ^b "Pseudovertagus aluco". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
^ Sealife Base
^ Walter Olivier Cernohorsky (1972). "The Taxonomy of Some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with Descriptions of New Species". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 9: 195–204. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906180. Wikidata Q58676917.
^ ^a ^b 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.

External links

CERITHIIDAE
Shell Encyclopedia
"Pseudovertagus aluco". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.

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.

[WoRMS-1] Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.

[2] OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

[AA-3] "Pseudovertagus aluco". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.

[4] Sealife Base

[5] Walter Olivier Cernohorsky (1972). "The Taxonomy of Some Indo-Pacific Mollusca with Descriptions of New Species". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 9: 195–204. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906180. Wikidata Q58676917.

[BB-6] Jenny Sa ¨ lgeback and Enrico Savazzi Constructional morphology of cerithiform gastropods

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