Cantharidella | |
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Drawing with three views of a shell of Cantharidella picturata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Trochidae |
Genus: | Cantharidella Pilsbry, 1889 |
Type species | |
Gibbula picturata A. Adams & Angas, 1864 |
Cantharidella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Trochinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails. [1]
This genus consists of small forms with much the aspect of tiny Cantharidus . They are usually polished, narrowly or not perforate. The shell is conical, and elongated. [2]
This genus of marine species occurs off India, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia).
Species within the genus Cantharidella include:
Clanculus is a genus of sea snail, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Scissurella is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Scissurellidae, the small slit snails.
Sinezona is a genus of minute sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Scissurellidae, the little slit shells.
Volutomitra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Volutomitridae, the mitres, with global distribution.
Cominella is a genus of carnivorous sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cominellidae.
Buccinulum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.
Fossarina is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Cantharidus, common name the kelp shells, is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Micrelenchus is a genus of small sea snails that have shells with pearly interiors and an operculum. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails or top shells.
Roseaplagis caelatus is a species of small sea snail in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Micrelenchus sanguineus is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Trochidae, the top shells.
Bolma is a genus of medium to large sea snails with a calcareous operculum, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Asperdaphne is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.
Munditia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Liotiidae.
Bedeva is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Prothalotia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cantharidinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Guraleus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Mangeliidae.
Thalotia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Micrelenchus tenebrosus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Cantharidella tiberiana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.