''Cautor'' is a
genus
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of minute
sea snail
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s,
marine
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s or
micromollusk
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s in the
family
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Triphoridae
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Cautor'' are as follows:
* ''
Cautor alveolata''
A. Adams & L. A. Reeve, 1850
* ''
Cautor baculus''
* ''
Cautor conferta''
C. F. Laseron, 1958
* ''
Cautor cybaeus''
S. Kosuge, 1962
* ''
Cautor hungerfordi''
G. B. Sowerby III, 1914
* ''
Cautor intermissa''
* ''
Cautor lanceolata''
S. Kosuge, 1962
* ''
Cautor levukensis''
R. B. Watson, 1881
* ''
Cautor lutea''
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, 1908
* ''
Cautor macmichaeli''
S. Kosuge, 1962
* ''
Cautor maculosa''
Ch. Hedley, 1903
* ''
Cautor marceda''
* ''
Cautor marcedus''
C. F. Laseron, 1958
* ''
Cautor minima''
W. H. Pease, 1871
* ''
Cautor monacha''
Hervier, 1897
* ''
Cautor obliqua''
W. L. May, 1915
* ''
Cautor puniceus''
S. Kosuge, 1963
* ''
Cautor similis''
W. H. Pease, 1871
* ''
Cautor subfenestra''
S. Kosuge, 1962
* ''
Cautor tubularis''
* ''
Cautor verrucosa''
A. Adams & L. A. Reeve, 1850
References
*
Powell A. W. B., ''New Zealand Mollusca'',
William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979
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Triphoridae
Taxa named by Harold John Finlay
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