Caesia is a genus of sea snails in the subfamily Nassariinae of the family Nassariidae.[1]
| Caesia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Genus: | Caesia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 |
| Type species | |
| Nassa perpinguis Hinds, 1844 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Description
edit(Described as Zaphon) The shell is bucciniform. The spire is elevated, the whorls rugose. The inner lip shows a spreading, corrugated callus. The outer lip is denticulate, lirate internally, not variced externally. [2]
Species
edit- Caesia fossata (A. Gould, 1850)
- Caesia perpinguis (Hinds, 1844)
- Caesia rhinetes (S. S. Berry, 1953)
- Synonyms
- Caesia japonica (A. Adams, 1852): synonym of Nassarius praematuratus (Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1960)
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Caesia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=560395 on 2021-09-08
- ^ Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls
External links
edit- Conrad, T. A. (1856). Descriptions of three new genera; twenty-three new species middle Tertiary fossils from California and one from Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8: 312-336
- Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst.
- Adams, A. (1870). On some proboscidiferous gasteropods which inhabit the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,. Series 4, 5: 418–430.
- Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353
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