Cabestana tabulata

Cabestana tabulata
Shell of Cabestana tabulata (specimen at the Auckland Museum)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Cabestana
Species:	C. tabulata
Binomial name
Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
Synonyms [1]
Cabestana (Cymatilesta) otagoensisPowell, 1954 † Cabestana debeliorFinlay, 1930 † Cabestana manawatunaC. A. Fleming, 1943 Cabestana otagoensisPowell, 1954 Cabestana tabulata manawatunaC. A. Fleming, 1943 Cabestana waterhousei(A. Adams & Angas, 1864) Cabestana waterhousei segregataPowell, 1933 Cymatilesta waterhousei(A. Adams & Angas, 1864) Cymatilesta waterhousei tepidaIredale, 1936 Cymatium waterhousei(A. Adams & Angas, 1864) Cymatium waterhousei frigidulumIredale, 1929 Triton tabulataMenke, 1843 Triton waterhouseiA. Adams & Angas, 1864 Tritonium tabulatumMenke, 1843 superseded combination (basionym)

Cabestana tabulata, common name the shouldered triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae. ^[1]

Description

Cabestana tabulata is a type of seashell, which can be up to 130mm, but is usually 40-100 cm in length. ^{[2] [3]}

Distribution

This species occurs in the seas along Southern Australia and Northern New Zealand

References

1. Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 December 2018.
2. "Cabestana tabulata | Molluscs of Tasmania" . Retrieved 26 January 2025.
3. "Cabestana tabulata". seashellsofnsw.org.au. Retrieved 26 January 2025.

• Powell, A.W.B. (1933). Notes on the taxonomy of the recent Cymatiidae and Naticidae of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 63: 154–168.
• Fleming, C.A. (1943). Tertiary Mollusca from Dannevirke Subdivision. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 73: 193–208.
• Powell, A. W. B. (1954). "New Zealand Molluscan Systematics, with Descriptions of New Species, Part 2". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum . 4: 235–240. ISSN   0067-0464. JSTOR   42906069. Wikidata   Q58676746.
• Beu, A. G. (1976). New records of Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from Kapitean to Castlecliffian (Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene) rocks of East Cape District, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 19: 297-310
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
• Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

External links

• "Cabestana tabulata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
• Menke, K. T. (1843). Molluscorum Novae Hollandiae specimen. Hannover: Libraria Aulica Hahniana. 46 pp
• Adams, A. & Angas, G. F. (1864). Descriptions of new species of shells, chiefly from Australia, in the collection of Mr. Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1864: 35-40
• Iredale, T. (1929). Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum. 17(4): 157-189
• Finlay, H. J. (1930). New shells from New Zealand Tertiary beds. Part 3. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 61, 49–84, 6 pls.
• Iredale, T. (1936). Australian molluscan notes, no. 2. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 Archived 11 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine