Cantareus
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| Cantareus | |
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| Cantareus apertus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Stylommatophora |
| Family: | Helicidae |
| Subfamily: | Helicinae |
| Tribe: | Thebini |
| Genus: | Cantareus Risso, 1826[1] |
| Type species | |
| Helix naticoides Draparnaud, 1801 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cantareus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.[2]
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- Cantareus aspersus (O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) (superseded combination)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.
