Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[2]
Cassidula | |
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A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Order: | Ellobiida |
Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
Family: | Ellobiidae |
Genus: | Cassidula Gray, 1847[1] |
Type species | |
Bulimus aurisfelis Bruguière, 1789
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Synonyms[2] | |
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Species and subspecies
edit- Cassidula angulifera (Petit, 1841)
- Cassidula aurisfelis (Bruguière, 1789)
- Cassidula doliolum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1842)
- Cassidula granosula (Iredale, 1936)
- Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830)
- Cassidula multiplicata (Martens, 1865)
- Cassidula nucleus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Cassidula philippinarum Hidalgo, 1888
- Cassidula plecotrematoides Möllendorff, 1901
- Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica Möllendorff, 1901
- Cassidula rugata (Menke, 1843)
- Cassidula schmackeriana Möllendorff, 1895
- Cassidula sowerbyana (Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Cassidula sulculosa (Mousson, 1849)
- Cassidula vespertilionis (Lesson, 1831)
- Cassidula zonata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cassidula bilabiata Hedley, 1912: synonym of Cassidula zonata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
- Cassidula corona (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791)
- Cassidula decussata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855: synonym of Cassidula sowerbyana (Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Cassidula kraussi (Küster, 1844): synonym of Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830) (junior synonym)
- Cassidula lutescens Pfeiffer, 1856: synonym of Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830) (junior synonym)
References
edit- ^ Gray (1847). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1847: page 179.
- ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2014). Cassidula Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205152 on 2014-06-10
- Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376 [between 4 September and 21 October 1929]; Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778 [before 31 October 1931]; Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022 [before 19 January 1934]; Vol. 2 part 4: i-iv, 1023-1154, i-vi for volume 1
- Martins, A. M. de F. (1996) Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia 37: 163-332.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- GBIF info at: [1]
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Cassidula.
- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
- Conrad T. A. (1853). "Synopsis of the Genera Cassidula, Humph., and of a proposed new genus Athleta". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 448-449.
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