Cerithium caeruleum
| Cerith sand snail | |
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| Five views of a shell of Cerithium caeruleum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Cerithiidae |
| Genus: | Cerithium |
| Species: | C. caeruleum |
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Cerithium caeruleum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855 |
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Cerithium caeruleum, the Cerith sand snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae.
This species is widespread in the tropical Indo-Pacific (Red Sea, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Western India).
These sea snails live in rocky shores in the mid-eulittoral zone and deeper.
Shells of Cerithium caeruleum can reach a length of 20–40 millimetres (0.79–1.57 in). These shells show a few rows of nodules and tiny beads on whorls. The external surface of the shell may be brown, greyish-white or greenish, with a white aperture.
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