MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Bittium Gray, 1847

ERMS taxon details

Bittium Gray, 1847

AphiaID

137758 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137758)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Strombiformis reticulatus da Costa, 1778 accepted as Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Bittiinae Cossmann, 1906

Orig. name

Bittium Gray, 1847

Synonymised names

Cerithium (Bittium) Gray, 1847 · unaccepted

Direct children (21)
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Species Bittium circa Moreno, 2006
Species Bittium depauperatum R. B. Watson, 1897
Species Bittium incile R. B. Watson, 1897
Species Bittium lacteum (R. A. Philippi, 1836)
Species Bittium latreillii (Payraudeau, 1826)
Species Bittium nanum (Mayer, 1864)
Species Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778)
Species Bittium simplex (Jeffreys, 1867)
Species Bittium watsoni (Jeffreys, 1885)

Species Bittium atticum F. Nordsieck, 1977 accepted as Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778)
Species Bittium diplax R. B. Watson, 1886 accepted as Cerithidium diplax (R. B. Watson, 1886) (original combination)
Species Bittium enode (R. B. Watson, 1880) accepted as Cerithiella enodis (R. B. Watson, 1880)
Species Bittium hanleyanum Monterosato, 1889 accepted as Bittium simplex (Jeffreys, 1867) (synonym)
Species Bittium jadertinum (Brusina, 1865) accepted as Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778)
Species Bittium latreillei [sic] accepted as Bittium latreillii (Payraudeau, 1826) (misspelling)
Species Bittium perparvulum R. B. Watson, 1886 accepted as Cerithidium perparvulum (R. B. Watson, 1886) (original combination)
Species Bittium proteum (Jousseaume, 1931) accepted as Dahlakia proteum (Jousseaume, 1931)
Species Bittium ragusianum Locard & Caziot, 1900 accepted as Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778) (synonym)
Species Bittium scabrum (Olivi, 1792) accepted as Bittium reticulatum (da Costa, 1778) (junior synonym)
Species Bittium submammillatum (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854) accepted as Cerithidium submammillatum (de Rayneval & Ponzi, 1854)
Species Bittium tenthrenois Melvill, 1896 accepted as Cerithiopsis tenthrenois (Melvill, 1896)

Environment

marine

Original description

Gray, J. E. (1847). On the classification of the British Mollusca by W E Leach. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1) 20: 267-273., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278926
page(s): 270 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Bittium Gray, 1847. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137758 on 2023-06-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Bittium Gray, 1847. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137758 on 2023-06-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-10-31 21:03:08Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2010-11-01 08:46:33Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2010-11-01 13:33:31Z

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Gofas, Serge

2011-03-17 21:26:04Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2014-01-18 22:20:06Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2017-08-14 08:06:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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original description Gray, J. E. (1847). On the classification of the British Mollusca by W E Leach. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1) 20: 267-273., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278926
page(s): 270 [details]

additional source Verduin A. (1982). On the taxonomy and variability of recent european species of the genus Bittium Leach (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Basteria 46: 93-120, available online at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/download?type=document&docid=596759 [details] Available for editors

additional source Houbrick, R. S. (1977). Reevaluation and new description of the genus Bittium (Cerithiidae). The Veliger. 20 (2): 101-106., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42432299 [details]

additional source Gründel J. (1976). Zur Taxonomie und Phylogenie der Bittium-Gruppe (Gastropoda, Cerithiacea). Malakologische Abhandlungen. 5(3): 33-59. [details]

subsequent type designation Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 154 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To NMNH Extant Collection (USNM 1437208)
To ITIS


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