''Cantrainea'' is a
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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Colloniidae
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.
Species
Species within the genus ''Cantrainea'' include:
* ''
Cantrainea alfi''
S.-I Huang, I-F. Fu & Poppe, 2016
* ''
Cantrainea boswellae''
(Barnard, 1969)
* ''
Cantrainea gibbula''
(Thiele, 1925)
* ''
Cantrainea globuloides''
(Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
* ''
Cantrainea indica''
(E. A. Smith, 1894)
* ''
Cantrainea inexpectata''
(Marshall, 1979)
* '' Cantrainea jamsteci'' (Okutani & Fujikura, 1990)
* '' Cantrainea macleani'' Warén & Bouchet, 1993
* '' Cantrainea nuda'' Okutani, 2001
* '' Cantrainea panamensis'' (Dall, 1908)
* ''Cantrainea peloritana
''Cantrainea peloritana'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Colloniidae.
Description
The height of the shell varies between 5 mm and 20 mm.
C. peloritana lives in the bathyal zone at depths between ...
'' (Cantraine, 1835)
* '' Cantrainea philipiana'' (Dall, 1889)
* '' Cantrainea sunderlandi'' (Petuch, 1987)
* '' Cantrainea tosaensis'' (Habe, 1953)
* '' Cantrainea yoyottei'' Vilvens, 2001
References
* Okutani, T. & Fujikura, K. (1990). A new turbinid gastropod collected from the warm seep site in the Minami-Ensei Knoll, west of the Amami-Oshima Island, Japan. Venus 49(2): 83–91.
* Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). ''European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification''. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
* Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1993) New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta 22: 1-90
External links
Jeffreys J.G. 1883. ''On the Mollusca procured during the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' expeditions 1868-70. (Part VI).'' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1882: 88-149, pl. 19, 20*
ttps://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1979.10428396 Marshall, B. A. (1979). The Trochidae and Turbinidae of the Kermadec Ridge (Mollusca: Gastropoda). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 6: 521-552
Colloniidae
Taxa named by John Gwyn Jeffreys
Gastropod genera
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