Cantareus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Cantareus Risso, 1826. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818143 on 25 July 2020
Cantareus is a synonym for the genus Helix.Genus taxon summary for Cantareus. AnimalBase, Last modified 14 November 2006 by F. Welter Schultes, accessed 1 April 2009.
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Species brought into synonymy Cantareus aspersus (O. F. Müller, 1774): synonym of Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) (superseded combination) Cantareus mazzullii synonym of Cornu mazzullii.
References
Pallary, P. (1929). Première addition à la faune malacologique de la Syrie. Mémoires présentés a l'Institut d'Égypte, 12: 1–43, pl. 1-3. Le Caire.
External links Risso A. (1826). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes, vol. 4. Paris: Levrault. vii + 439 pp., pls 1–12 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.