''Cabestana'' is a
genus
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of medium to large
sea snail
Sea snails are slow-moving marine (ocean), marine gastropod Mollusca, molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the Taxonomic classification, taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguishe ...
s known as predatory whelks,
marine gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
mollusk
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s in the
family
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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
* '' ...
.
Description
The ventricose shell is umbilicated. The
whorl
A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
In nature
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s are nodosely ribbed. The outer
lip
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is dentated internally.
Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls
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Distribution
This genus has a cosmopolitan distribution and is found in warm temperate
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and tropical
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waters.
Species
The genus contains the following species:Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...
, 1767
* '' Cabestana felipponei'' (von Ihering, 1907)
* '' Cabestana spengleri'' (Perry
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, 1811)
* '' Cabestana tabulata'' (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, 1954 : synonym of ''Cabestana tabulata'' (Menke, 1843)
* † ''Cabestana manawatuna'' C. A. Fleming, 1943: synonym of † '' Cabestana tabulata'' (Menke, 1843)
* ''Cabestana waterhousei'' (A. Adams
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Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS Samarang (1822), HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of ...
& Angas, 1864) : synonym of ''Cabestana tabulata'' (Menke, 1843)
* ''Cabestana (Turritriton) labiosa'' (Wood, 1828): synonym of ''Turritriton labiosus
Turritriton is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae. This is often still regarded merely as a subgenus of the genus ''Cymatium''.
Description
(Description as ''Tritoniscus'') Forms with subtur ...
'' (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 pp
Schlüter, 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 pp
Dall W.H. (1904). An historical and systematic review of the frogshells and tritons. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 47: 114-144
Iredale, 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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