Cabestana spengleri
| Cabestana spengleri | |
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| A live individual of Cabestana spengleri in situ | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Ranellidae |
| Genus: | Cabestana |
| Species: | C. spengleri |
| Binomial name | |
| Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811) | |
Cabestana spengleri, or Spengler's trumpet, is a large predatory sea snail, sometimes called a predatory whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Ranellidae, a family often known as the "tritons". This species is named after Lorenz Spengler.
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An apertural view of a shell of Cabestana spengleri
A shell of Cabestana spengleri on the foreshore near MacMasters beach
References
Further reading
- 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
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