''Cantrainea inexpectata'' is a species of small

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

with calcareous opercula, a

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk in the family

Colloniidae Colloniidae is a family of small sea snails with calcareous opercula, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Vetigastropoda.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Colloniidae Cossmann, 1917. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at ...

.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Cantrainea inexpectata'' B.A. Marshall, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=512325 on 2013-02-10

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand. B. A. Marshall (1979) The Trochidae and Turbinidae of the Kermadec Ridge (Mollusca: Gastropoda), New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 6:4, 521-552, DOI: 10.1080/03014223.1979.10428396

References

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To World Register of Marine Species
Colloniidae Gastropods described in 1979 {{Colloniidae-stub