Shell more or less turreted, generally tuberculated; aperture small, oval, oblique; the columellar edge hollowed, callous; the right edge sharp, and dilating a little with age; operculum horny, oval, rounded, sub-spiral, and striated.

Cerithium giganteum.

C. palustre.

C. sulcatum.

C. telescopium.

C. ebeninum.

C. erythræonense.

C. muricatum.

C. radula.

C. crassum.