Cabestana cutacea
Cabestana cutacea, common name the Mediterranean bark triton, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cymatiidae.
Description
The adult shell size varies between 25 mm and 90 mm.
The revolving ribs are elegantly sculptured into close, beadlike nodules. The shell is light yellowish brown, white within the aperture.
The epidermis differs from that of most of the Tritons in being a thin, smooth skin.
Philippi describes the animal thus : Body on the upper part painted with irregular spots of dark purple, which are separated by narrow white lines; foot pale violet above, marbled on the sides, and speckled here and there with reddish spots which are edged with white.
Distribution
This species is found in European waters ; in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands, the Azores and the Cape Verdes; and off Mozambique and South Africa.
Aquillus cutaceus Aquillus cutaceus var. major Pallary, 1920 Aquillus dolarium Aquillus dolarium attenuata Pallary, P., 1920Aquillus dolarium elongata Pallary, P., 1920Aquillus dolarium major Pallary, P., 1920Cabestana costata Röding, 1798Cabestana cutacea cutacea Cabestana dolaria Cabestana doliata Röding, 1798Cymatium doliarium Linnaeus 1767Murex cutaceus Linnaeus, 1767Murex dolarium Linnaeus, 1767Murex succinctus Risso, 1826Ranella lemania Risso, 1826Ranella tuberculata Risso, 1826Simpulum dolarium Simpulum dolarium var. elongata Pallary, 1903 Triton africanum Adams A., 1855Triton cutaceum Triton cutaceus Triton cutaceus var. curta Buquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882Triton cutaceus var. gerna de Gregorio, 1885Triton cutaceus var. isgura de Gregorio, 1885Tritonium curtum Locard, 1886Tritonium danieli Locard, 1886