Cabestana

Cabestana
A live but retracted individual of Cabestana spengleri in situ
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Cabestana Röding, 1798
Type species
Cabestana cutacea Linnaeus, 1767
Species
See text
Synonyms
Aquillus Montfort, 1810 Cabestana (Cymatilesta) Iredale, 1936 Cymatilesta Iredale, 1936 Cymatium (Cabestana) Röding, 1798 Dolarium Schlüter, 1838 Neptunella Gray, 1854 Triton (Cabestana) Tritonium (Cabestana) Röding, 1798

Cabestana is a genus of medium to large sea snails known as predatory whelks, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cymatiidae.

Description

The ventricose shell is umbilicated. The whorls are nodosely ribbed. The outer lip is dentated internally.

Distribution

This genus has a cosmopolitan distribution and is found in warm temperate and tropical waters.

Species

The genus contains the following species:

• Cabestana africana (A. Adams, 1855)
• † Cabestana casus Kensley & Pether, 1986
• Cabestana cutacea Linnaeus, 1767
• Cabestana felipponei (von Ihering, 1907)
• Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811)
• Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
• † Cabestana tetleyi (Powell & Bartrum, 1929)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cabestana costata Röding, 1798: synonym of Cabestana cutacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
• † Cabestana debelior Finlay, 1930 : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
• Cabestana dolaria (Linnaeus, 1767): synonym of Cabestana cutacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Cabestana doliata Röding, 1798: synonym of Cabestana cutacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Cabestana otagoensis Powell, 1954 : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
• † Cabestana manawatuna C. A. Fleming, 1943: synonym of † Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
• Cabestana waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864) : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
• Cabestana (Turritriton) labiosa (Wood, 1828): synonym of Turritriton labiosus (Wood, 1828)

References

• 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
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
• Beu A.G. 2010 [August]. Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology 377-378: 550 pp, 79 pls. page(s): 118-119

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• Röding P.F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp
• Schlüter, F. (1838). Kurzgefasstes systematisches Verzeichniss meiner Conchyliensammlung nebst Andeutung aller bis jetzt von mir bei Halle gefundenen Land- und Flussconchylien. Gebauersche Buchdruckerei, Halle. vii + 40 pp
• Dall W.H. (1904). An historical and systematic review of the frogshells and tritons. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 47: 114-144
• Iredale, T. (1936). Australian molluscan notes, no. 2. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 Archived 2020-06-11 at the Wayback Machine