Rhinoclavis vertagus

Common creeper
A Shell of Rhinoclavis vertagus.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Cerithiidae
Genus:	Rhinoclavis
Species:	R. vertagus
Binomial name
Rhinoclavis vertagus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
Cerithium (Rhinoclavis) vertagus (Linnaeus, 1767) (chresonym) Cerithium despectum Perry, 1811 (original combination) Cerithium vertagus (Linnaeus, 1767) (chresonym) Clava varia Humphrey, 1797 Clava vertagus (Linnaeus, 1767) (chresonym) Clava volvax Humphrey, 1797 Rhinoclavis (Rhinoclavis) vertagus (Linnaeus, 1767) · accepted, alternate representation Murex vertagus Linnaeus, 1767 Strombus carminatus Röding, 1798 Vertagus vertagus (Linnaeus, 1767) (chresonym) Vertagus vulgaris Schumacher, 1817

Rhinoclavis vertagus, commonly known as the common creeper, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.^[1] R. vertagus is most commonly found in intertidal sand flats^[2]

R. vertagus has a cone-shaped shell most commonly bearing white, grey, and brown colors.The length of the shell varies between 40 mm and 80 mm. Members of the order Neotaenioglossa are mostly gonochoric and broadcast spawners. Embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults.

They are collected mainly for their shells, though occasionally eaten.^[3]

This species occurs in Australia, Philippines,^[4] and in the Indo-west Pacific from east Africa to Vanuatu as a whole.

• Linnaeus, C. 1767. Systema naturae, per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum caracteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Holmiae [= Stockholm] : L. Salvii Vol. 1(2) 12, pp. 533–1327.
• Humphrey, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum : specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France and lately his property : consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy, &c. London : E. Bibl. Radcl. viii, 84 pp.
• Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp.
• Perry, G. 1811. Conchology, or the natural history of shells containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings, executed from the natural specimens and including the latest discoveries. London : W. Miller 4 pp., 62 pls.
• Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22.
• Tryon, G.W. (ed.) 1887. Solariidae, Ianthinidae, Trichotropidae, Scalariidae, Cerithiidae, Rissoidae, Littorinidae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 9 488 pp., 71 pls.
• Schepman, M.M. 1909. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Part 2. Taenioglossa and Ptenoglossa. 109-231, pls 10-16 in Weber, M. (ed.). Siboga Expeditie. Leiden : Brill Vol. 49.
• Dautzenberg, P. 1923. Liste Préliminaire des Mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux epèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie 68(1): 21-74
• Thiele, J. 1931. Handbuch der Systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena : Gustav Fischer Vol. 2 pp. 377–778.
• Cotton, B.C. 1952. Family Cerithiidae. Royal Society of South Australia Malacological Section 2: 4 pp.
• Houbrick, R.S. 1978. The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part I. The genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca 1: 1-130
• Abbott, R.T. & S.P. Dance (1986). Compendium of sea shells. American Malacologists, Inc:Melbourne, Florida
• Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.

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