Cerithiimorpha

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title: "Cerithiimorpha" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["obsolete-gastropod-taxa", "sorbeoconcha", "marine-gastropods"] description: "Former suborder of marine gastropods within the Sorbeoconcha" topic_path: "general/obsolete-gastropod-taxa" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerithiimorpha" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Former suborder of marine gastropods within the Sorbeoconcha ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/Turritellatricarinata.jpg" caption="''[[Turritella cingulifera]]'' from the [[Pliocene]] of [[Cyprus"] ::

The Cerithiimorpha was a suborder of marine gastropods within the Sorbeoconcha. This taxon is no longer valid according to the current taxonomy of Bouchet and Rocroi.

The previous classification system was as follows:

• subclassis = Orthogastropoda
• infraclassis = Apogastropoda
• superordo = Caenogastropoda
• ordo = Sorbeoconcha
• subordo = Cerithiimorpha

Previous taxonomy

During the taxon's use, not all taxonomists agreed upon its structure. The listing below gives one interpretation. For example, in another accepted classification, the Campaniloidea and Cerithioidea were separated in a suborder named Discopoda.

• Campaniloidea
  • Campanilidae
  • Plesiotrochidae
• Cerithioidea
  • Batillariidae
  • Brachytremidae
  • †Canterburyellidae
  • Cassiopidae
  • Cerithiidae
  • Dialidae
  • Diastomidae
  • Eoptychiidae
  • Eustomidae
  • Faxiidae
  • Lavigeriidae
  • Litiopidae
  • †Maoraxidae
  • Melanopsidae
  • Modulidae
  • Pachychilidae
  • Pachymelaniidae
  • Pareoridae
  • Pianaridae
  • Planaxidae
  • Potamididae
  • Procerithiidae
  • Pseudamaurinidae
  • Scaliolidae
  • Siliquariidae
  • Syrnolopsidae
  • Tenagodidae
  • Terebrellidae - not a valid name
  • Thiaridae
  • Turritellidae
  • Turritellopsidae
• Spationematoidea
  • Spanionematidae
  • Stephanozygidae

(Extinct taxa indicated by a dagger, †.)

References

References

1. "Kowalke, T. 2001, Cerithioidea (Caenogastropoda: Cerithiimorpha) of Tethyan... Bulletin of Geosciences, 76, 253-271.".
2. Neubauer, Thomas A.. (2014-04-04). "Replacement names and nomenclatural comments for problematic species-group names in Europe's Neogene freshwater Gastropoda". Zootaxa.

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