Cabestana spengleri
Cabestana spengleri | |
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A live individual of Cabestana spengleri in situ | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Cymatiidae |
Genus: | Cabestana |
Species: | C. spengleri
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Binomial name | |
Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811)
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Cabestana spengleri, or Spengler's trumpet, is a large predatory sea snail, sometimes called a predatory whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cymatiidae.[1] This species is named after the Danish naturalist Lorenz Spengler.
References[]
- ^ Cabestana spengleri (Perry, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
Further reading[]
- 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
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Categories:
- Gastropods of Australia
- Gastropods of New Zealand
- Cymatiidae
- Gastropods described in 1811
- Cymatiidae stubs