MolluscaBase - Cantareus apertus (Born, 1778)

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Cantareus apertus (Born, 1778)

AphiaID

1002156 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1002156)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cantareus Risso, 1826

Original name

Helix aperta Born, 1778

Synonymised names

Cornu apertus (Born, 1778) · unaccepted (superseded generic combination)

Helix (Cantareus) apertus (Born, 1778) · unaccepted

Helix (Pomatia) aperta Born, 1778 · unaccepted

Helix aperta Born, 1778 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Helix naticoides Draparnaud, 1801 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Vitrina comorensis L. Pfeiffer, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

(of Helix aperta Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 399 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cantareus apertus (Born, 1778). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1002156 on 2026-04-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-06-27 08:15:30Z

created

Neubert, Eike

2019-08-13 10:24:49Z

changed

Bieler, Rüdiger

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Helix naticoides Draparnaud, 1801) Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28587765
page(s): 78 [details]

original description (of Helix aperta Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 399 [details]

original description (of Vitrina comorensis L. Pfeiffer, 1857) Pfeiffer, L. (1857). Descriptions of fifty-eight new species of Helicea from the collection of H. Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the zoological Society of London. 24 (321) [“1856”]: 324–336. London [10 March]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860878
page(s): 325 [details]

basis of record Bouaziz-Yahiatene, H., Inäbnit, T., Medjdoub-Bensaad, F., Colomba, M. S., Sparacio, I., Gregorini, A., Liberto, F. & Neubert, E. (2019). Revisited – the species of Tweeting vineyard snails, genus Cantareus Risso, 1826 (Stylommatophora, Helicidae, Helicinae, Otalini). ZooKeys. 876: 1-26., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.876.36472
page(s): 10, figs 2–4, 21–24 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Sparacio, I., Surdo, S., Viviano, R., Liberto, F. & Reitano, A. (2021). Land molluscs from the Isola delle Femmine Nature Reserve (north-western Sicily, Italy) (Gastropoda Architaenioglossa Pulmonata). Biodiversity Journal. 12 (3): 589–624., available online at https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2021.12.3.589.624
page(s): 602 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Breure, A. S. H. (2015). The sound of a snail: two cases of acoustic defense in gastropods. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81(2): 290-293., available online at https://academic.oup.com/mollus/article/81/2/290/1044357 [details]

additional source Gojšina, V.; Vesović, N.; Ilić, K.; Vujić, M. (2025). First observation of Cantareus apertus (Born, 1778) (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Helicidae) in Serbia. Malacologica Bohemoslovaca. 24: 43–44., available online at https://doi.org/10.5817/mab2025-24-43
page(s): 43-44 [details] Available for editors

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