''Cantharidus fulminatus'' is a
species of
marine
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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 ().
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mollusc
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in the
family Trochidae, the top shells.
[Rosenberg, G. (2012). Cantharidus fulminatus (Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598219 on 2012-12-20]
Description
The small, globose-conoidal shell measures 7½ mm. It is narrowly perforate, shining, solid, smooth, except for a few stride around the white
umbilicus. Its color is pink, orange, purplish or olive-brown, generally with a series of white blotches alternating with self-colored darker ones below the
sutures, a girdle of white blotches around the periphery and often around the umbilicus. The intervening spaces are irregularly strigate with darker zigzag streaks or unicolored. The
apex is rosy. The
spire is short and contains about 5 convex
whorl
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Whorls in nature
File:Photograph and axial plane flo ...
s. The rounded-quadrate
aperture is iridescent within. The
lip is white-margined. The arcuate
columella is a trifle straightened in the middle.
Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
(described as ''Gibbula fulminata'')
Distribution
It is a shallow water gastropod, found only off the Chatham Islands of New Zealand.
References
* Powell A. W. B., 1979: ''New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells''. William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979
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fulminatus
Gastropods of New Zealand
Gastropods described in 1873