WoRMS taxon details
Cantharus fumosus (Dillwyn, 1817)
AphiaID: 208034
AphiaID: 208034
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Buccinidae (Family) > Cantharus (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Pollia fumosa (Dillwyn, 1817) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Cantharus Röding, 1798 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details] basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Thick shell, up to 4 cm, with tall spire and large body whorl, upper whorls separated by deep sutures, and the entire surface sculptured by numerous transverse grooves and spiral ridges. Columella narrow and outer lip crenulate. Colour variable, often brown with a faint band on body whorl, or entirely yellow or orange. Aperture white. Habitat: under boulders in lower eulittoral. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] Publication date: Year of descrition from Dautzenberg, 1929 [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208034 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Cantharus fumosus (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208034 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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