Cantharus

Cancellate cantharus Cantharus cancellarius, from here.

Belongs within: Buccinoidea.

Cantharus is a genus of whelks with impressed sutures and angular whorls. The type species is the Tranquebar goblet C. tranquebaricus, native to the Indian Ocean and now established in the Mediterranea Sea.

<==Cantharus Röding 1798 [Cantharinae] BR05
    |--*C. tranquebaricus (Gmelin 1791) [=Buccinum tranquebaricum; incl. C. globularis Röding 1798] BR17
    |--C. aurithulus (Link 1807) S11
    |--C. balteatus (Reeve 1846) [=Buccinum balteatum] H09
    |--C. (Gemophos) berryi McLean 1970 BC01
    |--C. cancellarius (Conrad 1846) D88
    |--C. cecillei (Philippi 1844) ZC10
    |--C. curtisianus (Smith 1884) [=Tritonidea curtisiana] H09
    |--C. dorbignyi [=Buccinum dorbignyi, Cancellaria orbignyi] PH90
    |--C. erythrostoma Linnaeus 1758 W78
    |--C. isotomus (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon 1834) MG-H11
    |--C. karinae Usticke 1959 BC01
    |--C. melanostomus ZLK11
    |--C. mollis (Gould 1860) [=Pisania mollis] H09
    |--C. multangulus (Conrad 1846) D88
    |    |--C. m. multangulus BC01
    |    `--C. m. grandanus Abbott 1986 BC01
    |--C. pulcher (Reeve 1846) BW09
    |--C. semitextus (Hedley 1899) [=Nassa semitexta] H09
    |--C. undosus (Linnaeus 1758) BW09 [=Buccinum undosum H09]
    |--C. viverratus PP64
    `--C. wagneri (Anton 1839) BW09

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[BR05] Bouchet, P., & J.-P. Rocroi. 2005. Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia 47 (1–2): 1–397.

[BR17] Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, B. Hausdorf, A. Kaim, Y. Kano, A. Nützel, P. Parkhaev, M. Schrödl & E. E. Strong. 2017. Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia 61 (1–2): 1–526.

[BC01] Boyko, C. B., & J. R. Cordeiro. 2001. Catalog of Recent type specimens in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. V. Mollusca, part 2 (class Gastropoda [exclusive of Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata], with supplements to Gastropoda [Opisthobranchia], and Bivalvia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 262: 1–170.

[BW09] Bryce, C., & C. Whisson. 2009. The macromolluscs of Mermaid (Rowley Shoals), Scott and Seringapatam Reefs, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 77: 177–208.

[D88] D’Asaro, C. N. 1988. Micromorphology of neogastropod egg capsules. Nautilus 102 (4): 134–148.

[H09] Hedley, C. 1909. The Marine Fauna of Queensland: Address by the President of Section D. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science: Brisbane.

[MG-H11] McEnnulty, F. R., K. L. Gowlett-Holmes, A. Williams, F. Althaus, J. Fromont, G. C. B. Poore, T. D. O’Hara, L. Marsh, P. Kott, S. Slack-Smith, P. Alderslade & M. V. Kitahara. 2011. The deepwater megabenthic invertebrates on the western continental margin of Australia (100–1100 m depths): composition, distribution and novelty. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 80: 1–191.

[PP64] Peres, J. M., & J. Picard. 1964. Nouveau manuel de bionomie benthique de la mer Mediterranee. Recueil des Travaux de la Station Marine d'Endoume, Bulletin 31 (27): 5–137.

[PH90] Petit, R. E., & M. G. Harasewych. 1990. Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Nautilus 103 (Suppl. 1): 1–69.

[S11] Simone, L. R. L. 2011. Phylogeny of the Caenogastropoda (Mollusca), based on comparative morphology. Arquivos de Zoologia 42 (4): 161–323.

[W78] Wells, F. E. 1978. Zonation of marine gastropods on a rocky intertidal shore in the Admiralty Gulf, Western Australia, with emphasis on the genus Nerita. Veliger 20 (3): 279–287.

[ZC10] Zhang, S., & Z. Chen. 2010. Species composition and faunal characteristics of Buccinacea (Mollusca, Gastropdoa) of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea. In: China-Russia Bilateral Symposium: Proceedings of the China-Russia Bilateral Symposium of "Comparison on Marine Biodiversity in the Northwest Pacific Ocean", 10–11 October 2010, Qingdao (China) pp. 117–118. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

[ZLK11] Zou, S., Q. Li & L. Kong. 2011. Additional gene data and increased sampling give new insights into the phylogenetic relationships of Neogastropoda, within the caenogastropod phylogenetic framework. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61: 425–435.

Last updated: 29 May 2021.