Cantharus (gastropod)

Cantharus
Shell of Cantharus bolivianus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Pisaniidae
Genus: Cantharus
Röding, 1798[1]
Type species
Buccinum tranquebaricum
Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms[2]
  • Tritonidea (Cantharus) Röding, 1798
  • †Zeapollia Finlay, 1926

Cantharus is a genus of sea snails in the family Pisaniidae.[1][2]

Taxonomy

This genus was previously placed in family Fasciolariidae by some authors.[citation needed] The genus is sometimes split into subgenera.[2]

Species

As of 2020, the World Register of Marine Species accepts 14 extant and 1 extinct species in the genus Cantharus:[2]

Cantharus elegans (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) is present in some databases,[3] but not the World Register of Marine Species.[2]

Cantharus porcatus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864 is listed as a taxon inquirendum in the World Register of Marine Species.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Röding P. F. (1798). Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten M. D. p. d. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia et multivalvia.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2018). Cantharus Röding, 1798. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at on 2018-01-10
  3. ^ "Cantharus elegans (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 ex Gray, MS)". MCZBASE:The Database of the Zoological Collections. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp


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