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Bittium

Bittium
Harting 1852 - Bittium reticulatum1.jpg
Drawing from Hartling 1886, two views of a shell of Bittium reticulatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda

clade Sorbeoconcha

Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Cerithiidae
Genus: Bittium
Leach in Gray, 1847
Type species
Bittium reticulatum Costa, E.M. da, 1778
Species

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Synonyms
  • Cerithium (Bittium) Gray, 1847
  • Dahlakia Biggs, 1971

clade Sorbeoconcha

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Bittium is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cerithiidae, the horn snails.

This genus is found worldwide.

Species in the genus Bittium include:

Species brought into synonymy:


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