Cabestana
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Cabestana is a genus of medium-sized to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ranellidae, the family commonly known as the tritons.
Cabestana is sometimes called a predatory whelk.
This genus is found in warm temperate and tropical waters.
[edit] Species
- Cabestana cutacea Carolus Linnaeus, 1767
- Cabestana otagoensis Powell, 1954
- Cabestana spengleri (Perry,1811)
- Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)
- Cabestana waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
[edit] External links
- 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 85467 054 8
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