Cabestana

Taxobox
name = "Cabestana"
status =


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Littorinimorpha
superfamilia = Tonnoidea
familia = Ranellidae
genus = "Cabestana"
genus_authority = Röding, 1798
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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.

pecies

* "Cabestana cutacea" Carolus Linnaeus, 1767
* "Cabestana otagoensis" Powell, 1954
* "Cabestana spengleri" (Perry,1811)
* "Cabestana tabulata" (Menke, 1843)
* "Cabestana waterhousei" (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)

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