Cautor
Encyclopedia
Cautor is a genus
of minute sea snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
s in the family
Triphoridae
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of minute sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks or micromollusk
Micromollusk
A micromollusk is a descriptive term for a shelled mollusk which is extremely small, even at full adult size. The word is usually, but not exclusively, applied to marine mollusks, although in addition, numerous species of land snails and freshwater mollusks also reach adult size at very small...
s in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Triphoridae
Triphoridae
Triphoridae are a family of very small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the informal group Ptenoglossa in the clade Hypsogastropoda. Almost all the species in this family are micromollusks.-Shell description:...
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Species
Species within the genus Cautor are as follows:- Cautor alveolata A. Adams & L. A. Reeve, 1850
- Cautor baculus
- Cautor conferta C. F. Laseron, 1958
- Cautor cybaeus S. Kosuge, 1962
- Cautor hungerfordi G. B. Sowerby III, 1914
- Cautor intermissa
- Cautor lanceolata S. Kosuge, 1962
- Cautor levukensis R. B. Watson, 1881
- Cautor luteaCautor luteaCautor lutea is a species of small deepwater sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triphoridae.-References:* Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1...
SuterHenry SuterHenry Suter was a New Zealand zoologist, naturalist, palaeontologist, and malacologist.- Biography :...
, 1908 - Cautor macmichaeli S. Kosuge, 1962
- Cautor maculosa Ch. Hedley, 1903
- Cautor marceda
- Cautor marcedus C. F. Laseron, 1958
- Cautor minima W. H. Pease, 1871
- Cautor monacha Hervier, 1897
- Cautor obliqua W. L. May, 1915
- Cautor puniceus S. Kosuge, 1963
- Cautor similis W. H. Pease, 1871
- Cautor subfenestra S. Kosuge, 1962
- Cautor tubularis
- Cautor verrucosa A. Adams & L. A. Reeve, 1850