''Cerithidea balteata'' is a

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snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

, a brackish-water

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

in the

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Potamididae ''Potamididae'', common name potamidids (also known as horn snails or mudwhelks) are a family (biology), family of small to large brackish water snails that live on mud flats, mangroves and similar habitats. They are amphibious gastropod mollusc ...

.Bouchet, P. (2015). Cerithidea balteata A. Adams, 1855. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758720 on 2016-03-29

Description

The length of the shell attains 28 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in brackish waters in the

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References

External links

Sowerby, G. B., II. (1855). Monograph of the genus Cerithium, Adanson. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. 2 (16): 847–899, pls 176–186. London, privately published

Reid D.G. (2014) ''The genus Cerithidea Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region''. Zootaxa 3775(1): 1–65
Potamididae Gastropods described in 1855 {{Potamididae-stub