{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | image = Cerithium echinatum 01.jpg | image_caption = Five views of a shell of ''Cerithium echinatum'' | taxon = Cerithium echinatum | authority = Lamarck, 1822 | synonyms = }}
'''''Cerithium echinatum''''' is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|216669|''Cerithium echinatum'' Lamarck, 1822||9 January 2011}}</ref>
==Description== This snail's shell has a short siphonal canal. The shell has spiral rows of bumps as well as reddish-brown dashes. It has been found at 53mm in size.<ref>Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. 2005. ''Offshore Shells of Southern Africa'' {{ISBN|0-620-33607-2}}</ref>
==Distribution== The distribution of ''Cerithium echinatum'' includes the Indo-Pacific.<ref name="sealifebase">[http://sealifebase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?genusname=Cerithium&speciesname=echinatum ''Cerithium echinatum'']. sealifebase.org, accessed 9 January 2011.</ref> It is found off the southern African coast at northern KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique in 15-30m of water.
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== External links == {{commons category|Cerithium echinatum}} * Image from Natural History Museum Rotterdam: [https://web.archive.org/web/20101006061732/http://www.nmr-pics.nl/Cerithiidae/album/index.html]
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Category:Cerithiidae Category:Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Category:Gastropods described in 1822
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