Cabestana cutacea
| Cabestana cutacea | |
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| 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] | |
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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 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.
- MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
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