Pseudovertagus aluco, common name aluco vertagus or Cuming's cerith, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae, the ceriths.OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
Distribution This species is present in the Indo-Pacific from the Eastern Africa to Philippines, and in Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia), the Samoan Islands and New Caledonia.Sealife Base
Habitat Pseudovertagus aluco can be found on sand-bars at the high tide level, on tidalflats, on clean sand and coralrubble.Jenny Sa ¨ lgeback and Enrico Savazzi Constructional morphology of cerithiform gastropods
Description Shell of Pseudovertagus aluco can reach a length of . This species possess high-spired shells with a small aperture and a few spiral rows of tubercles.
Behaviour These sea snails usually extend their proboscis and foot deep into the sediments, rather than burrowing below the surface.
References
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External links CERITHIIDAE Shell Encyclopedia
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