Biology:Cabestana
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Short description: Genus of gastropods
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| A live but retracted individual of Cabestana spengleri in situ | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Cymatiidae |
| Genus: | Cabestana Röding, 1798 |
| Type species | |
| Cabestana cutacea Linnaeus, 1767
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Cabestana is a genus of medium to large sea snails known as predatory whelks, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.[1]
Description
The ventricose shell is umbilicated. The whorls are nodosely ribbed. The outer lip is dentated internally.[2]
Distribution
This genus has a cosmopolitan distribution and is found in warm temperate and tropical waters.
Species
The genus contains the following species:[1]
- Cabestana africana (A. Adams, 1855)
- † Cabestana casus Kensley & Pether, 1986
- Cabestana cutacea Linnaeus, 1767
- Cabestana felipponei (von Ihering, 1907)
- Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 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 & Angas, 1864) : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
- Cabestana (Turritriton) labiosa (Wood, 1828): synonym of Turritriton labiosus (Wood, 1828)
References
- Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-00-216906-1
- Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN:0-85467-054-8
- 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 [August]. 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
Wikidata ☰ Q5015363 entry
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