Genus Cantharus Röding, 1798

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cantharus Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [132].

  Type species:

   Cantharus globularis Röding, 1798 by subsequent designation, see Cossmann, M. 1889. Catalogue illustre des coquilles fossiles de l"Eocene des environs de Paris. Quatrieme Fascicule. Annales de la Socété Malacologique de Belgique 24: 3-381, pls 1-12 [141] (Cossmann, 1889, Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris, 4: 141 [as C. tranquebaritus Gmelin, by Röding cited in synonymy]).

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Vermeij, G.J. & Bouchet, P. 1998. New Pisaniinae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Buccinidae) from New Caledonia, with remarks on Cantharus and related genera. Zoosystema 20(3): 471-485 [471-473]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [89]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Sep-2022	BUCCINOIDEA	06-Sep-2022	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	10-Sep-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED