Cancellaria is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[2]

Cancellaria
Abapertural view of shell of Cancellaria reticulata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Volutoidea
Family: Cancellariidae
Genus: Cancellaria
Lamarck, 1799[1]
Type species
Voluta reticulata
Linnaeus, 1767
Synonyms[2]
  • Cancellaria (Cancellaria) Lamarck, 1799 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cancellaria (Euclia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Cancellaria (Habesolatia) Kuroda, 1965 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Progabbia Dall, 1918

Species

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Species within this genus include:[3][4]

 
Cancellaria (Euclia) balboae
 
Cancellaria (Euclia) cassidiformis
Subgenus Cancellaria (Crawfordina) Dall, 1919
  • Cancellaria (Crawfordina) stuardoi McLean & Andrade, 1982: synonym of Merica stuardoi (McLean & Andrade, 1982)
Subgenus Cancellaria (Euclia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Subgenus Cancellaria (Habesolatia) Kuroda, 1965
Subgenus Cancellaria (Hertleinia) Marks, 1949
Subgenus Cancellaria (Massyla) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Species names brought into synonymy

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References

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  1. ^ Lamarck J.-B. (1799). Mém. Soc. Hist. nat. Paris 71.
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2015). Cancellaria Lamarck, 1799. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137726 on 2015-06-07
  3. ^ "Malacolog 4.1.1: Western Atlantic Mollusk Species Database at the Academy of Natural Sciences".
  4. ^ WoRMS : Cancellaria; accessed : 30 October 2010