Cantharidus fournieri

Species of gastropod

Cantharidus fournieri

Drawing of a shell of Cantharidus fournieri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Vetigastropoda
Order:  | Trochida
Superfamily:  | Trochoidea
Family:  | Trochidae
Genus:  | Cantharidus
Species:  |

C. fournieri

Binomial name
Cantharidus fournieri

(Crosse, 1863) [1]

Synonyms

Trochus fournieri Crosse, 1863

Cantharidus fournieri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Distribution
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description[edit]

The shell grows to a length of 9 mm, its diameter 6 mm. The small, imperforate shell has an acutely elongate-conical shape. It is brown or olivaceous, unicolored or punctate or maculate with white. The spire is straightly conical. The apex is acute. The sutures are linear. The about 8 whorls are flat, very finely, evenly, densely spirally striate, the stride sometimes subdecussated by delicate oblique growth-lines. The body whorl is carinate at the periphery. The base of the shell is coarsely lirate, lirae about 9 in number. The aperture is small, quadrangular, and smooth within. The lip is acute, bordered inside by a wide porcellanous band. The throat is nacreous, brilliant green. The columella is straight and scarcely truncate at its base.[3]

## Distribution[edit]

This marine species occurs in the Indo-Pacific and off New Caledonia.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl., 1863, p. 180.
2. ^ Marshall, B. (2013). Cantharidus fournieri (Crosse, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=720354 on 2014-01-17
3. ^ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

## External links[edit]

* To World Register of Marine Species
* "Cantharidus fournieri". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q15630812
* AFD: Cantharidus_fournieri
* CoL: 5WXFC
* GBIF: 8368634
* iNaturalist: 1214382
* IRMNG: 11846308
* WoRMS: 720354

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