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| Cassidula | |
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| A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Order: | Ellobiida |
| Superfamily: | Ellobioidea |
| Family: | Ellobiidae |
| Genus: | Cassidula Férussac, 1821 |
| Type species | |
| Bulimus aurisfelis Bruguière, 1789 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. Cassidula aurisfelis is known as Angulated Shoulder Earsnail, Angulate Vassidula or cat's Ear Cassidula in English (Smith, 1992). It belongs to the great division or phylum called the Mollusca and from class of Gastropoda.[2][1]
Species and subspecies
[edit]- Cassidula angulifera (Petit, 1841)
- Cassidula aurisfelis (Bruguière, 1789)
- Cassidula crassiuscula Mousson, 1869
- Cassidula doliolum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1842)
- Cassidula faba (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
- Cassidula granosula (Iredale, 1936)
- Cassidula labio von Möllendorff, 1887
- Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830)
- Cassidula multiplicata (Martens, 1865)
- Cassidula nucleus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Cassidula paludosa (Garrett, 1872)
- 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)
- Cassidula mustelina (Deshayes, 1830): synonym of Cassidula nucleus (Gmelin, 1791) (junior synonym)
References
[edit]- 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2014). "Cassidula A. Férussac, 1821". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
- ↑ Wan Bayani, W. O.; Mohammad, Shafie S.; and Zaleha, K. (16 November 2009). "Study on genetic variability of Cassidula aurisfelis (snail) by random amplified polymorphic DNAs". African Journal of Biotechnology. 8 (22): 6117–6119. doi:10.5897/AJB2009.000-9471.
- 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. Melbourne, FL (USA): American Malacologists. ISBN 0-915826-22-4.
- "Cassidula A. Férussac, 1821". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
External links
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- Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London: Longman.
- 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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