''Ceratia'' is a
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sea snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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family
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Iravadiidae
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.
[Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2016). Ceratia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1852. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138082 on 2016-06-17]
Species
Species within the genus ''Ceratia'' include:
* † ''
Ceratia dissoluta'' Weichmann, 1874
* † ''
Ceratia dufresnoyi'' (Des Moulins, 1868) - synonym: ''Ceratia suturalis'' Cossmann & Peyrot, 1919
* ''
Ceratia francisca'' Lima, Júnior, Guimarães & Dominguez, 2016
* † ''
Ceratia meridionalis'' Lozouet, 2015
* ''
Ceratia nagashima'' Fukuda, 2000
* ''
Ceratia pachia'' (Watson, 1886)
* † ''
Ceratia pliocenica'' Ceregato & Tabanelli, 2005
* ''
Ceratia proxima'' (Forbes & Hanley, 1850) - type species of the genus ''Ceratia'', synonym: ''Ceratia altimirai'' Nordsieck, 1982
* ''
Ceratia sergipana'' Lima, Júnior, Guimarães & Dominguez, 2016
* † ''
Ceratia sternbergensis'' R. Janssen, 1978
;Synonyms
* ''Ceratia watsoni'' Hornung & Mermod, 1927 is a synonym of ''
Monotygma watsoni'' (Hornung & Mermod, 1927)
References
Iravadiidae
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