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Cassidae
The Cassidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized, large, and sometimes very large sea snails commonly called helmet snails or bonnet snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the clade Littorinimorpha.Gofas, S. (2010). Cassidae. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22999 on 2011-01-19 About 60 species comprise the family Cassidae; an example is ''Cypraecassis rufa''. Nomenclature Despite its incorrect formation (the correct one would be Cassididae, based on the genitive form of Cassis), the ICZN has placed the name Cassidae Latreille, 1825 on the official list of family names, therefore avoiding homonymy with Cassididae Stephens, 1831 (based on Cassida Linnaeus, 1758, a chrysomelid beetle); Opinion 1023 (1974, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 31: 127-129). Distribution Species of this fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cypraecassis
''Cypraecassis'' is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cassidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204021 on 2012-06-25 Fossil record Fossils of ''Cypraecassis'' are found in marine strata from the Miocene until the Quaternary (age range: from 15.97 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossils are known from various localities in Europe, Central America and India. Species Species within the genus ''Cypraecassis'' include: * '' Cypraecassis coarctata ( Sowerby, 1825) * '' Cypraecassis rufa'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Cypraecassis tenuis'' (Wood, 1828) * '' Cypraecassis testiculus'' (Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonnidae
The Tonnidae are a family (biology), family of medium-sized to very large sea snails, known as the tun shells. These are marine invertebrates, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The name ''tun'' refers to the snails' shell shape, which resembles wine casks known as "tuns". While thin, the shells are also strong and lack operculum (gastropod), opercula. They are found in all tropical seas, where they inhabit sandy areas. During the day, they bury themselves in the substrate (biology), substrate, emerging at night to feed on echinoderms (especially sea cucumbers), Crustacean, crustaceans, and bivalves. Some larger species also capture fish, using their expandable probosces to swallow them whole. Females lay rows of eggs that become free-swimming larvae for several months before settling to the bottom. Taxonomy In 2005, these subfamilies were recognized in the Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005), taxonomy of Bouchet & Rocroi: *Cassinae Latreille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tonnoidea
The Tonnoidea are a superfamily of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the order Littorinimorpha. This superfamily includes many very large species. Nomenclature Beu (1998, 2008) favours usage of Tonnoidea and Tonnidae rather than Cassoidea and Cassidae preferred by Riedel (1995). This is in agreement with the action of Thiele (1925) who placed Tonnidae and Cassidae under "stirps Tonnacea", therefore acting as first reviser under ICZN art. 24 Families Families within the superfamily Tonnoidea include: * Bursidae, the frog shells * Cassidae, the helmet shells and bonnet shells * Charoniidae * Cymatiidae * Laubierinidae * Personidae * Ranellidae, the tritons * Thalassocyonidae * Tonnidae, the tun shells ;Families brought into synonymy: * Aquillidae Pilsbry, 1904: synonym of Cymatiinae Iredale, 1913 (1854) * Distorsioninae Beu, 1981: synonym of Personidae Gray, 1854 * Doliidae Latreille, 1825: synonym of Tonnidae Suter, 1913 (1825) * Galeodoliidae Sacco, 1891: synony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casmaria
''Casmaria'', is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Phaliinae of the family Cassidae The Cassidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized, large, and sometimes very large sea snails commonly called helmet snails or bonnet snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the clade Littorinimorpha.Go ..., the helmet shells and their allies.Bouchet, P. (2015). ''Cascara'' H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205551 on 2015-12-29 Species Species within the genus ''Casmaria'' include: * '' Casmaria atlantica'' Clench, 1944 * '' Casmaria beui'' Buijse, Dekker & Verbinnen, 2013 * '' Casmaria boblehmani'' Fedosov, Olivera, Watkins & Barkalova, 2014 * '' Casmaria cernica'' (G. B. Sowerby III, 1888) * '' Casmaria erinaceus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) * '' Casmaria kalosmodix'' (Melvill, 1883) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cypraecassis Rufa
''Cypraecassis rufa'' is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cassidae. It is commonly known as the bullmouth shell or red helmet shell, and also as the cameo shell. Distribution This species is found off the southern African coast from northern KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique. It is more common in Mozambique.Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. 2005. ''Offshore Shells of Southern Africa'' It is also a common shell to find on the shores of Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi .... References External links Cassidae Gastropods described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Cassidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassis (gastropod)
''Cassis'', common name the helmet shells, is a genus of very large sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Cassidae, the helmet shells and their allies. This is the type genus of the subfamily Cassinae. Species The genus ''Cassis'' includes extant and extinct species: * ''Cassis abbotti'' Bouchet, 1988 * † ''Cassis altispira'' Beu 2010 * † ''Cassis birmanica'' Vredenburg 1921 * † ''Cassis brasili'' (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1905) * † ''Cassis calusa'' Petuch and Berschauer 2018 * ''Cassis cornuta'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758) * † ''Cassis costulifera'' Beu 2010 * † ''Cassis delta'' Parker 1948 * † ''Cassis depressior'' Martin 1879 * ''Cassis fimbriata'' Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 * ''Cassis flammea'' (Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae, 1758) * † ''Cassis flintensis'' Mansfield 1940 * † ''Cassis floridensis'' Tucker and Wilson 1932 * † ''Cassis glaucoides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semicassis Pyrum
''Semicassis pyrum'', common name the "pear bonnet" or "common helmet", is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cassidae The Cassidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized, large, and sometimes very large sea snails commonly called helmet snails or bonnet snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the clade Littorinimorpha.Go ..., the helmet shells, bonnet shells and their allies. References * Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 * Cassidae Taxa named by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Gastropods described in 1822 {{Cassidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Littorinimorpha
Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting primarily of sea snails ( marine species), but also including some freshwater snails ( aquatic species) and land snails (terrestrial species).Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (Ed.); Frýda J., Hausdorf B., Ponder W., Valdes A. & Warén A. 2005. ''Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families''. Malacologia: International Journal of Malacology, 47(1-2). ConchBooks: Hackenheim, Germany. . . 397 pp. http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/imis2/ref.php?refid=78278 Previously, the Linnaean taxonomy used in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Ponder & Lindberg (1997) ranked like this: subclass Orthogastropoda, superorder Caenogastropoda, order Sorbeoconcha, suborder Hypsogastropoda, infraorder Littorinimorpha. The order Littorinimorpha contains many gastropoda families that were formerly placed in the order Mesogastropoda, as introduced by J. Thiele in his work from 1921. Evidence for this group being monophyletic is scanty. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taxonomy Of The Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks. (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and slugs of every kind, from the land, from freshwater, and from saltwater.) The paper setting out this taxonomy was published in the journal ''Malacologia''. The system encompasses both living and extinct groups, as well as some fossils whose classification as gastropods is uncertain. The Bouchet & Rocroi system was the first complete gastropod taxonomy that primarily employed the concept of clades, and was derived from research on molecular phylogenetics; in this context a clade is a "natural grouping" of organisms based upon a statistical cluster analysis. In contrast, most of the previous overall taxonomic schemes for gastropods relied on morphological features to classify these animals, and used taxon ranks such as order, superorder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Adams (zoologist)
Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an English physician and naturalist. Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, from 1843 to 1846. He edited the ''Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang'' (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage. In 1857, during the Second China War whilst serving as Surgeon on HMS ''Actaeon'', he was present at the storming of Canton and awarded the China War Medal. He retired as Staff Surgeon aboard flagship HMS ''Royal Adelaide'' at Plymouth in 1870. He was a prolific malacologist who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently diagnosed". He partly worked together with his brother Henry Adams (1813–1877) and together they wrote The genera of recent mollusca: arranged according to their organization' (three volumes, 1858). He also wrote ''Travels of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echinoderms
An echinoderm () is any member of the phylum Echinodermata (). The adults are recognisable by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, as well as the sea lilies or "stone lilies". Adult echinoderms are found on the sea bed at every ocean depth, from the intertidal zone to the abyssal zone. The phylum contains about 7,000 living species, making it the second-largest grouping of deuterostomes, after the chordates. Echinoderms are the largest entirely marine phylum. The first definitive echinoderms appeared near the start of the Cambrian. The echinoderms are important both ecologically and geologically. Ecologically, there are few other groupings so abundant in the biotic desert of the deep sea, as well as shallower oceans. Most echinoderms are able to reproduce asexually and regenerate tissue, organs, and limbs; in some cases, they can undergo complete regeneration from a single limb. Geolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinisation of names, Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and natural history, naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the "Carl Linnaeus, Linnaeus of the Austrian Empire". Biography Scopoli was born at Cavalese in the Val di Fiemme, belonging to the Prince-Bishopric of Trent, Bishopric of Trent (today's Trentino), son of Francesco Antonio, military commissioner, and Claudia Caterina Gramola (1699-1791), painter from a patrician family from Trentino. He obtained a degree in medicine at University of Innsbruck, and practiced as a doctor in Cavalese and Venice.Newton, Alfred 1881. ''Scopoli's ornithological papers.'' The Willoughby SocietyScanned version/ref> Much of his time was spent in the Alps, Plant collecting, collecting plants and Entomology, insects, of which he made outstanding collections. He spent two years as private secretary to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
