Cantareus

Cantareus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.^[2]

Cantareus
Helix mazzullii, synonym: Cantareus mazzullii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Stylommatophora
Family:	Helicidae
Subfamily:	Helicinae
Tribe:	Otalini
Genus:	Cantareus Risso, 1826[1]
Type species
Helix naticoides Draparnaud, 1801
Synonyms
Cantarelus Pallary, 1929 (unjustified emendation of Cantareus) Helix (Cantareus) Risso, 1826 Tapada Gray, 1840

Cantareus is a synonym for the genus Helix.^[3]

It contains the following species:

• Cantareus apertus (Born, 1778) synonym: Helix aperta
• Cantareus koraegaelius (Bourguignat in Locard, 1882)
• Cantareus subapertus (Ancey, 1893)

Species brought into synonymy

• Cantareus aspersus (O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) (superseded combination)
• Cantareus mazzullii synonym of Cornu mazzullii.

References

1. Risso A. 1826. Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. Tome quatrième. pp. [1–3], j-vij [= 1–7], 1–439, pl. [1-12]. Paris. (Levrault).
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cantareus Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818143 on 25 July 2020
3. Genus taxon summary for Cantareus. AnimalBase, Last modified 14 November 2006 by F. Welter Schultes, accessed 1 April 2009.

• Pallary, P. (1929). Première addition à la faune malacologique de la Syrie. Mémoires présentés a l'Institut d'Égypte, 12: 1–43, pl. 1-3. Le Caire.

External links

• Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes, vol. 4. Paris: Levrault. vii + 439 pp., pls 1–12
• Bouaziz-Yahiatene, H., Inäbnit, T., Medjdoub-Bensaad, F., Colomba, M. S., Sparacio, I., Gregorini, A., Liberto, F. & Neubert, E. (2019). Revisited – the species of Tweeting vineyard snails, genus Cantareus Risso, 1826 (Stylommatophora, Helicidae, Helicinae, Otalini). ZooKeys. 876: 1–26.