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| Shell of Cantharus bolivianus (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Pisaniidae |
| Genus: | Cantharus Röding, 1798 |
| Type species | |
| Buccinum tranquebaricum Gmelin, 1791 | |
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Cantharus is a genus of sea snails in the family Pisaniidae.
Taxonomy
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This genus was previously placed in family Fasciolariidae by some authors. The genus is sometimes split into subgenera.
Species
As of 2020, the World Register of Marine Species accepts 14 extant and 1 extinct species in the genus Cantharus:
- †Cantharus acuticingulatus (Suter, 1917)
- Cantharus berryi McLean, 1970
- Cantharus bolivianus (Souleyet, 1852)
- Cantharus cecillei (Philippi, 1844)
- Cantharus erythrostoma (Reeve, 1846)
- Cantharus leucotaeniatus Kosuge, 1985
- Cantharus melanostoma (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Cantharus petwayae Poppe, Tagaro & Goto, 2018
- Cantharus rehderi Berry, 1962
- Cantharus salalahensis Cossignani, 2017
- Cantharus septemcostatus Vermeij & Bouchet, 1998
- Cantharus spiralis Gray, 1839
- Cantharus tranquebaricus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Cantharus vermeiji Fraussen, 2008
- Cantharus vezzarochristofei Cossignani, 2017
Cantharus elegans (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) is present in some databases, but not the World Register of Marine Species.
Cantharus porcatus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864 is listed as a taxon inquirendum in the World Register of Marine Species.
References
- ^ Röding P. F. (1798). 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.
- ^ Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2018). Cantharus Röding, 1798. In: MolluscaBase (2018). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at on 2018-01-10
- "Cantharus elegans (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 ex Gray, MS)". MCZBASE:The Database of the Zoological Collections. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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