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Cabestana tabulata

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Cabestana tabulata
Shell of Cabestana tabulata (specimen at the Auckland Museum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cymatiidae
Genus: Cabestana
Species:
C. tabulata
Binomial name
Cabestana tabulata
(Menke, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cabestana (Cymatilesta) otagoensis Powell, 1954
  • Cabestana debelior Finlay, 1930
  • Cabestana manawatuna C. A. Fleming, 1943
  • Cabestana otagoensis Powell, 1954
  • Cabestana tabulata manawatuna C. A. Fleming, 1943
  • Cabestana waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
  • Cabestana waterhousei segregata Powell, 1933
  • Cymatilesta waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
  • Cymatilesta waterhousei tepida Iredale, 1936
  • Cymatium waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
  • Cymatium waterhousei frigidulum Iredale, 1929
  • Triton tabulata Menke, 1843
  • Triton waterhousei A. Adams & Angas, 1864
  • Tritonium tabulatum Menke, 1843 superseded combination (basionym)

Cabestana tabulata, common name the shouldered triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.[1]

Description

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The shell size varies between 35 mm and 130 mm

Distribution

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This species occurs in the seas along Southern Australia and Northern New Zealand

References

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  1. ^ a b Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 December 2018.
  • Powell, A.W.B. (1933). Notes on the taxonomy of the recent Cymatiidae and Naticidae of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 63: 154–168.
  • Fleming, C.A. (1943). Tertiary Mollusca from Dannevirke Subdivision. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 73: 193–208.
  • Powell, A. W. B. (1954). "New Zealand Molluscan Systematics, with Descriptions of New Species, Part 2". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 4: 235–240. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906069. Wikidata Q58676746.
  • Beu, A. G. (1976). New records of Cymatiidae (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from Kapitean to Castlecliffian (Late Miocene to Early Pleistocene) rocks of East Cape District, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 19: 297-310
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
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