Cerion (gastropod)

Cerion is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cerionidae, sometimes known as the peanut snails. The genus is endemic to the Caribbean region.

Cerion
Temporal range: Early Miocene–Recent[1]
Drawing of a live individual of Cerion chrysalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Superorder: Eupulmonata
Order: Stylommatophora
Infraorder: Helicina
Superfamily: Urocoptoidea
Family: Cerionidae
Genus: Cerion
Röding, 1798[2]
Species

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The name Cerion is based on the Greek word kerion, signifying honeycomb, and is given to these shells because the form of the shell resembles that of a beehive; hence they were at one time known as beehive shells.[3]

The fossil range of Cerion is possibly from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, or the early Miocene of Florida.[1] Records of Cerion in Pleistocene are rare.[1]

Species
Five live but aestivating Cerion snails on limestone wall of Windley Key Fossil Quarry (with two other non-Cerion snails), Florida

Species within the genus Cerion include:

  • Cerion acuticostatum Sánchez Roig, 1948[4]
  • Cerion aguayoi Torre & Clench, 1932[4]
  • Cerion alberti Clench & Aguayo, 1949[4]
  • Cerion alleni Torre, 1929[4]
  • Cerion anodonta
  • Cerion arangoi (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896)[4]
  • Cerion banesense Clench & Aguayo, 1949[4]
  • Cerion barroi Aguayo & Jaume, 1957[4]
  • Cerion basistriatum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1895[4]
  • Cerion bioscai Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion blanesi Clench & Aguayo, 1951[4]
  • Cerion cabocruzense Pilsbry & Torre, 1943[4]
  • Cerion capraia
  • Cerion caroli Aguayo & Torre, 1951[4]
  • Cerion casablancae Bartsch, 1920
  • Cerion catherwoodianum Wurtz, 1950[4]
  • Cerion ceiba Clench, 1948[4]
  • Cerion chaparra Aguayo & Sánchez Roig, 1953[4]
  • Cerion chaplini Wurtz, 1950[4]
  • Cerion chrysalis(Ferussac in Beck, 1837)
  • Cerion chrysaloides
  • Cerion circumscriptum Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion cisneroi Clench & Aguayo, 1951[4]
  • Cerion cobarrubia Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion columbiana
  • Cerion columbinus Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion coutini Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion crassilabris
  • Cerion crassiusculum Torre in Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1899[4]
  • Cerion cyclostomum (Küster, 1841)[4]
  • Cerion dimidiatum (Pfeiffer, 1847)[4]
  • Cerion disforme Clench & Aguayo, 1946[4]
  • Cerion dorotheae Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion ebriolum Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion evolva
  • Cerion fasciata
  • Cerion feltoni Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion floridanum
  • Cerion geophilum Clench & Aguayo, 1949[4]
  • Cerion glans (Küster, 1844)
  • Cerion grilloensis Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion grisea
  • Cerion gundlachi (Pfeiffer, 1852)[4]
  • Cerion herrerai Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion hessei Clench & Aguayo, 1949[4]
  • Cerion humberti Clench & Aguayo, 1949[4]
  • Cerion hyperlissum Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896[4]
  • Cerion incanum (A. Binney, 1851)
  • Cerion incrassatum (Sowerby, 1876)[4]
  • Cerion infandulum Aguayo & Torre, 1951[4]
  • Cerion infandum (Shuttleworth in Poey, 1858)[4]
  • Cerion iostomum (Pfeiffer, 1854)[4]
  • Cerion johnsoni Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1895[4]
  • Cerion josephi Clench & Aguayo, 1949[4]
  • Cerion kusteri (Pfeiffer, 1854)[4]
  • Cerion laureani Clench & Aguayo, 1951[4]
  • Cerion longidens Pilsbry, 1902[4]
  • Cerion macrodon Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion magister Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896[4]
  • Cerion manatiense Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion marielinum Torre in Pilsbry, 1927[4]
  • Cerion maritimum (Pfeiffer, 1839)[4]
  • Cerion microdon Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1896[4]
  • Cerion microstonum (Pfeiffer, 1854)[4]
  • Cerion miramarae Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion multicostum (Küster, 1845)[4]
  • Cerion mumia (Bruguière, 1792)[4]
  • Cerion mumiola (Pfeiffer, 1839)[4]
  • Cerion nanus (Maynard, 1889)[5]
  • Cerion nipense Aguayo, 1953[4]
  • Cerion obesum
  • Cerion orientale Clench & Aguayo, 1951[4]
  • Cerion palmeri Sánchez Roig, 1948[4]
  • Cerion pandionis Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion paredonis Pilsbry, 1902[4]
  • Cerion pastelilloensis Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion paucicostatum Torre, 1929[4]
  • Cerion paucisculptum Clench & Aguayo, 1952[4]
  • Cerion peracutum Clench & Aguayo, 1951[4]
  • Cerion persuasa
  • Cerion pilsbryi
  • Cerion pinerium Dall, 1895[4]
  • Cerion politum (Maynard, 1896)[4]
  • Cerion prestoni Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion pretiosus Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion pseudocyclostomum Aguayo & Sánchez Roig, 1953[4]
  • Cerion pupilla
  • Cerion ramsdeni Torre in Welch, 1934[4]
  • Cerion regina
  • Cerion regula
  • Cerion restricta
  • Cerion ricardi Clench & Aguayo, 1951[4]
  • Cerion rodrigoi Gould, 1997
  • Cerion saccharimeta
  • Cerion saetiae Sánchez Roig, 1948[4]
  • Cerion sagraianum (Pfeiffer, 1847)[4]
  • Cerion sainthilarius Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion sallei
  • Cerion salvatori Torre in Pilsbry, 1927[4]
  • Cerion sanctacruzense Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion sanctamariae Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion sanzi Blanes in Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898[4]
  • Cerion scalarinum (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1860)[4]
  • Cerion scopulorum Aguayo & Jaume, 1951[4]
  • Cerion sculptum (Poey, 1858)[4]
  • Cerion sisal Clench & Aguayo, 1952[4]
  • Cerion striatellum
  • Cerion stupida
  • Cerion tanamensis Sánchez Roig, 1951[4]
  • Cerion tenuilabre (Gundlach in Pfeiffer, 1870)[4]
  • Cerion torrei Blanes in Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1898[4]
  • Cerion tridentatun Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1895[4]
  • Cerion uva (Linnaeus, 1758)[6]
  • Cerion vaccinum
  • Cerion vanattai Clench & Aguayo, 1951[4]
  • Cerion venustum (Poey, 1858)[4]
  • Cerion viaregis Bartsch, 1920
  • Cerion victor Torre, 1929[4]
  • Cerion vulneratum (Küster, 1855)[4]
  • Cerion watlingense Dall, 1907
  • Cerion yumaensis

References
  1. "Cerion: a web-based resource for Cerion research and identification". accessed 5 April 2011.
  2. Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg. page 90.
  3. Baker F. C. (1903). Shells of land and water; a familiar introduction to the study of the mollusks. Chicago, A.W. Mumford, page 48.
  4. "Mollusca" Archived July 18, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Diversidad Biológica Cubana, accessed 23 March 2011.
  5. "Cerion". Smithsonian Institution, accessed 17 May 2016.
  6. WoRMS
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