''Cassidula'' is a
genus
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of small air-breathing
salt marsh
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snail
A snail is, in loose terms, a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastro ...
s,
pulmonate
Pulmonata or pulmonates, is an informal group (previously an order, and before that a subclass) of snails and slugs characterized by the ability to breathe air, by virtue of having a pallial lung instead of a gill, or gills. The group includ ...
gastropod
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This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk
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s in the family
Ellobiidae
Ellobiidae, common name the hollow-shelled snails, is a family of small air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.Bouchet, P. (2012). Ellobiidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Speci ...
.
[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]
Species and subspecies
* ''
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
''Cassidula plecotrematoides'' is a species of small air-breathing salt marsh snail, a pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Ellobiidae.
Subspecies
* ''Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica'' Möllendorff, 1901
* ''Cassidula plecotrematoid ...
''
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
''Melongena corona'', common name the Florida crown conch, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791 ...
''
(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
* Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376
etween 4 September and 21 October 1929 Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778
efore 31 October 1931 Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022
efore 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). . XII, 195 pp
* GBIF info at
External links
Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp*
Timothy Abbott Conrad, Conrad T. A. (1853). "Synopsis of the Genera ''Cassidula'', Humph., and of a proposed new genus ''Athleta''". ''
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Ellobiidae
Gastropod genera
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