Cantharidus turneri

Cantharidus turneri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails. The species was originally described as Margarella turneri by Arthur William Baden Powell in 1939, but later research has placed it in the genus Cantharidus within the subfamily Cantharidinae in the family Trochidae.

Description

The shell grows to a length of 9 mm, its diameter 8 mm.

Distribution

This top snail is endemic to the southern shores of New Zealand. C. turneri has been found around Stewart Island and has also been recorded on the Snares, Auckland, and Campbell Islands further south. It inhabits the low intertidal to shallow subtidal zone, where it lives on seaweed-covered rocks near low tide level. The holotype was collected under such conditions at Stewart Island.