Cantharidella

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Cantharidella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Prosobranchia
Order: Archaeogastropoda
Superfamily: Trochacea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Cantharidella
Pilsbry, 1889
Species

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Cantharidella is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

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[edit] Range of distribution

This genus is endemic to southern Australia and New Zealand.

[edit] Shell description

These are small, depressed-turbinate shells, narrowly umbilicated, smooth and polished, often brilliantly coloured and patterned.

[edit] Species

  • Cantharidella balteata
  • Cantharidella beachportensis Cotton & Godfrey, 1934
  • Cantharidella blanfordiana Cotton, B.C. & F.C. Godfrey, 1934
  • Cantharidella ocellina
  • Cantharidella picturata Adams & Angas, 1864
  • Cantharidella rottnestensis
  • Cantharidella tesselata (A. Adams,1851)
  • Cantharidella tiberiana Crosse, 1863
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