''Cabestana'' is a
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of medium to large
sea snail
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s known as predatory whelks,
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the
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Cymatiidae
Cymatiidae is a family of large sea snails in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the order Littorinimorpha. Members of this family are predators.
Genera
The family Cymatiidae contains the following genera:
* '' Argobuccinum'' Herrmannsen, 1846
* '' ...
.
This genus is found in warm
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and
tropical
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waters.
Species
The genus contains the following species:
* ''
Cabestana africana''
(A. Adams, 1855)
* † ''
Cabestana casus''
Kensley & Pether, 1986
* ''
Cabestana cutacea''
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1767
* ''
Cabestana felipponei''
(von Ihering, 1907)
* ''
Cabestana spengleri
''Cabestana spengleri'', or Spengler's trumpet, is a large predatory sea snail, sometimes called a predatory whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cymatiidae. This species is named after the Danish naturalist Lorenz Spengler
Lorenz S ...
''
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, 1811)
* ''
Cabestana tabulata
''Cabestana tabulata'', common name the shouldered triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.
Description
The shell size varies between 35 mm and 130 mm
Distribution
This speci ...
''
(Menke, 1843)
* † ''
Cabestana tetleyi''
(Powell & Bartrum, 1929)
;Species brought into synonymy:
* ''Cabestana costata''
Röding, 1798: synonym of ''Cabestana cutacea''
(Linnaeus, 1767)
* † ''Cabestana debelior''
Finlay, 1930 : synonym of ''Cabestana tabulata''
(Menke, 1843)
* ''Cabestana dolaria''
(Linnaeus, 1767): synonym of ''Cabestana cutacea''
(Linnaeus, 1767)
* ''Cabestana doliata''
Röding, 1798: synonym of ''Cabestana cutacea''
(Linnaeus, 1767)
* ''Cabestana otagoensis''
Powell
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, 1954 : synonym of ''Cabestana tabulata''
(Menke, 1843)
* ''Cabestana waterhousei''
( A. Adams & Angas, 1864) : synonym of ''Cabestana tabulata''
(Menke, 1843)
* ''Cabestana (Turritriton) labiosa''
(Wood, 1828): synonym of ''
''
(Wood, 1828)
References
*
Powell A W B, ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
* Glen Pownall, ''New Zealand Shells and Shellfish'', Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), ''European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification.'' Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
* Beu A.G. 2010
ugust Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology 377-378: 550 pp, 79 pls. page(s): 118-119
External links
Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 ppSchlüter, F. (1838). Kurzgefasstes systematisches Verzeichniss meiner Conchyliensammlung nebst Andeutung aller bis jetzt von mir bei Halle gefundenen Land- und Flussconchylien. Gebauersche Buchdruckerei, Halle. vii + 40 ppDall W.H. (1904). An historical and systematic review of the frogshells and tritons. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 47: 114-144redale, T. (1936). Australian molluscan notes, no. 2. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24
Cymatiidae
Taxa named by Peter Friedrich Röding
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