Cantareus

Cantareus is a genus of air-breathing land snails, a pulmonate gastropod in the family Helicidae, the typical snails.

Cantareus is a synonym for the genus Helix.

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 * Cantareus aspersus (O. F. Müller, 1774) : synonym of Cornu aspersum (O. F. Müller, 1774) (superseded combination)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.