Cerithium litteratum
| Cerithium litteratum | |
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| Cerithium litteratum shell | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Sorbeoconcha |
| Superfamily: | Cerithioidea |
| Family: | Cerithiidae |
| Genus: | Cerithium |
| Species: | C. litteratum |
| Binomial name | |
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Cerithium litteratum (Born, 1778) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cerithium angustum Anton, 1838 |
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Cerithium angustum Anton, 1838
Cerithium litteratum playagrandensis Weisbord, 1962
Cerithium semiferrugineum Lamarck, 1822
Murex literatus
Murex litteratus Born, 1778
Cerithium litteratum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae.
Cerithium litteratum has been living in shallower waters and reefs of the Western Central Atlantic Ocean, from South Carolina to Florida including the Gulf of Mexico in North America over Central America (Belize) to South America (Brazil), and has been documented in the Indian Ocean. It prefers water temperatures and ecosystems associated with a tropical climate. It was judged to be an 'occasional' alien species in the Mediterranean Sea, based on a 1978 find by fishers in the Aegean Sea.
As of 2010[update] the maximum recorded shell length has been 34 mm.
As of 2010[update] the snail has been found between sea level and a maximum recorded depth of 88 m below sea level. which means it lives in the sunlight zone of the pelagic.
The snail is a herbivore, feeding on algae for example. Small hermit crabs, mostly Calcinus tibicen but also Paguristes punticeps and Paguristes cadenati have long been known to move into its empty shells.
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