Cabestana cutacea

Cabestana cutacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Ranellidae
Subfamily: Cymatiinae
Genus: Cabestana
Species: C. cutacea
Binomial name
Cabestana cutacea
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms[1]

See list

Cabestana cutacea, common name the Mediterranean bark triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons.[1]

List of synonyms

  • Aquillus cutaceus (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Aquillus cutaceus var. major Pallary, 1920
  • Aquillus dolarium (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Aquillus dolarium attenuata (f) Pallary, P., 1920
  • Aquillus dolarium elongata (f) Pallary, P., 1920
  • Aquillus dolarium major (f) Pallary, P., 1920
  • Cabestana costata Röding, 1798
  • Cabestana cutacea cutacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Cabestana dolaria (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Cabestana doliata Röding, 1798
  • Cymatium doliarium Linnaeus 1767
  • Murex cutaceus Linnaeus, 1767
  • Murex dolarium Linnaeus, 1767
  • Murex succinctus Risso, 1826
  • Ranella lemania Risso, 1826
  • Ranella tuberculata Risso, 1826
  • Simpulum dolarium (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Simpulum dolarium var. elongata Pallary, 1903
  • Triton africanum Adams A., 1855
  • Triton cutaceum (Linnaeus, 1767) (incorrect gender agreement of specific epithet)
  • Triton cutaceus (Linnaeus, 1767)
  • Triton cutaceus var. curta Buquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882
  • Triton cutaceus var. gerna de Gregorio, 1885
  • Triton cutaceus var. isgura de Gregorio, 1885
  • Tritonium curtum Locard, 1886
  • Tritonium danieli Locard, 1886

Description

The adult shell size varies between 25 mm and 90 mm.

Distribution

This species is found in European waters (Spain); in the Atlantic ocean off the Canary Islands, the Azores and the Cape Verdes; and off Mozambique and South Africa.

References

  1. 1 2 Cabestana cutacea (Linnaeus, 1767). Gofas, S. (2009). Cabestana cutacea (Linné, 1767). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141099 on 27 June 2010.

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