Cassidula

Cassidula
A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Heterobranchia
clade Euthyneura
clade Panpulmonata
clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Subfamily: Pythiinae
Genus: Cassidula
Gray, 1847[1]
Synonyms
  • Cassidula (Cassidula) Gray, 1847
  • Cassidula (Cassidulta) Strand, 1942
  • Cassidulella Thiele, 1934 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulella Strand, 1928 [Coleoptera]; Cassidulta is a replacement names)
  • Cassidulina Thiele, 1931 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulina d'Orbigny, 1826 [Foraminifera]; Cassidulella and Cassidulta are replacement names)
  • Melosidula B.J. Smith & Kershaw, 1979
  • Rhodostoma Swainson, 1840

Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[2]

Species and subspecies

  • Cassidula angulifera (Petit, 1841)
  • Cassidula aurisfelis (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Cassidula doliolum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1842)
  • Cassidula granosula (Iredale, 1936)
  • Cassidula kraussi (Küster, 1844)
  • Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830)
  • Cassidula lutescens Pfeiffer, 1856
  • 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)

References

  1. ↑ Gray (1847). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1847: page 179.
  2. ↑ 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
  • 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.
  • 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:


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