Cerion (gastropod)
| Cerion Temporal range: | |
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| Drawing of a live individual of Cerion chrysalis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Infraorder: | Helicina |
| Superfamily: | Urocoptoidea |
| Family: | Cerionidae |
| Genus: | Cerion Röding, 1798 |
| Type species | |
| Turbo uva Linnaeus, 1758 | |
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Cerion is a genus of small to medium-sized tropical air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropods in the family Cerionidae, noted for its extreme morphological diversity. The genus is endemic to the Caribbean region.
Cerion has been a model organism in evolutionary biology. The genus has significantly contributed to scientific understanding of evolutionary processes in insular environments, making it a key subject in biogeographical and ecological research.