Cancellaria

Cancellaria
A shell of Cancellaria reticulata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Cancellarioidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Cancellaria
Lamarck, 1799[1]
Type species
Voluta reticulata LInnaeus, 1767

Cancellaria is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Species

Species within this genus include:[2][3]

Subgenus Cancellaria (Crawfordina) Dall, 1919
Subgenus Cancellaria (Euclia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Subgenus Cancellaria (Habesolatia) Kuroda, 1965
Subgenus Cancellaria (Hertleinia) Marks, 1949
Subgenus Cancellaria (Massyla) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

References

  1. ^ Lamarck J.-B. (1799). Mém. Soc. Hist. nat. Paris 71.
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ WoRMS : Cancellaria; accessed : 30 October 2010