Cantharus (gastropod)
Cantharus is a genus of sea snails in the family Pisaniidae.[1][2]
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| Shell of Cantharus bolivianus (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| 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] | |
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Taxonomy
This genus was previously placed in family Fasciolariidae by some authors. 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 acuticingulatus (Suter, 1917)
- Cantharus berryi McLean, 1970
- Cantharus bolivianus (Souleyet, 1852)
- Cantharus cecillei (Philippi, 1844)
- Cantharus erythrostoma (Reeve, 1846)
- Cantharus leucotaeniatus Kosuge, 1985
- Cantharus melanostoma (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Cantharus petwayae Poppe, Tagaro & Goto, 2018
- Cantharus rehderi Berry, 1962
- Cantharus salalahensis Cossignani, 2017
- Cantharus septemcostatus Vermeij & Bouchet, 1998
- Cantharus spiralis Gray, 1839
- Cantharus tranquebaricus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Cantharus vermeiji Fraussen, 2008
- Cantharus vezzarochristofei Cossignani, 2017
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
- 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.
- Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2018). Cantharus Röding, 1798. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at on 2018-01-10
- "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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