Cantharus (gastropod)

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|image_caption=Shell of Cantharus bolivianus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)

|taxon=Cantharus

|authority=Röding, 1798{{r|roding1798}}

|type_species_authority=Gmelin, 1791

|synonyms_ref={{r|worms}}

|synonyms=* Tritonidea (Cantharus) {{small|Röding, 1798}}

†Zeapollia {{small|Finlay, 1926}}

|type_species=Buccinum tranquebaricum

}}

Cantharus is a genus of sea snails in the family Pisaniidae.{{r|roding1798|worms}}

Taxonomy

This genus was previously placed in family Fasciolariidae by some authors.{{cn|date=August 2020}} The genus is sometimes split into subgenera.{{r|worms}}

Species

{{As of|2020}}, the World Register of Marine Species accepts 14 extant and 1 extinct species in the genus Cantharus:{{r|worms}}

†Cantharus acuticingulatus {{small|(Suter, 1917)}}
Cantharus berryi {{small|McLean, 1970}}
Cantharus bolivianus {{small|(Souleyet, 1852)}}
Cantharus cecillei {{small|(Philippi, 1844)}}
Cantharus erythrostoma {{small|(Reeve, 1846)}}
Cantharus leucotaeniatus {{small|Kosuge, 1985}}
Cantharus melanostoma {{small|(G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)}}
Cantharus petwayae {{small|Poppe, Tagaro & Goto, 2018}}
Cantharus rehderi {{small|Berry, 1962}}
Cantharus salalahensis {{small|Cossignani, 2017}}
Cantharus septemcostatus {{small|Vermeij & Bouchet, 1998}}
Cantharus spiralis {{small|Gray, 1839}}
Cantharus tranquebaricus {{small|(Gmelin, 1791)}}
Cantharus vermeiji {{small|Fraussen, 2008}}
Cantharus vezzarochristofei {{small|Cossignani, 2017}}

Cantharus elegans {{small|(Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)}} is present in some databases,{{r|mczbasecelegans}} but not the World Register of Marine Species.{{r|worms}}

Cantharus porcatus {{small|H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864}} is listed as a taxon inquirendum in the World Register of Marine Species.{{r|worms}}

References

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Röding P. F. (1798). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41571Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten M. D. p. d. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia et multivalvia].

{{cite web |title=Cantharus elegans (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 ex Gray, MS) |url=https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/name/Cantharus%20elegans |website=MCZBASE:The Database of the Zoological Collections |accessdate=25 August 2020}}

Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2018). [http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205348 Cantharus Röding, 1798]. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at on 2018-01-10

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Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). {{ISBN|0-915826-22-4}}. XII, 195 pp

Category:Pisaniidae

Category:Gastropod genera