Cerithiopsis greenii (C. B. Adams, 1839 )

Pimenta, Alexandre Dias, Faria, Raquel Garofalo De Souza, Figueira, Raquel Medeiros Andrade & Fernandes, Maurício Romulo, 2024, Unraveling another of the ‘ Big Fiveʹ: new species and records of Cerithiopsidae from Brazil (Caenogastropoda: Triphoroidea), Zootaxa 5494 (1), pp. 1-71 : 62

Cerithiopsis greenii (C. B. Adams, 1839)

Cerithiopsis greenii was first recorded from Brazil by Lange-de-Morretes (1949), probably based on the specimens stored at the Molluscan collection of MZUSP (MZSP 35797) and collected in São Sebastião, São Paulo state, by von Ihering. This record was subsequently repeated in all Molluscan catalogues by Rios (1970, 1975, 1985, 1994) and cited in many faunistic or ecological works (e.g., Migotto et al. 1993; Mello & Perrier 1986, 1992; Oliveira 1992; Barros 1996a; Barros et al. 2002; Absalão 2005; Agudo-Padrón 2015). Rios (1975) did not present illustrations of specimens from Brazil but instead reproduced the figure of the type; Rios (1985) presented a photograph of a shell, and Rios (1994: 93, pl. 31, fig. 369) presented a micrograph of a shell with different sculpture pattern from C. greenii .

Leal (1991) rejected the occurrence of C. greenii in Brazilian oceanic islands and stated that reports from the Brazilian coast are probabyl also on error. Rios (2009) stated that the species does not occur in Brazil, without further discussion.

Cerithiopsis greenii was originally described from Massachusetts (C. B. Adams, 1839), and the holotype was figured by Clench & Turner (1950) and Rolán & Espinosa (1996). It has repeatedly been cited from the USA ( Abbott 1974; Odé 1989; Tunnell et al. 2010) and from several Caribbean localities ( Warmke & Abbott 1962; Redfern 2001). However, Krisberg & Lee (2014) concluded that the species is probably limited to the northeastern USA, according to morphology of the lectotype and specimens stored in collections, and on the study of the literature.