''Semicassis saburon'' is a

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of large

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, a

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in the

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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, ...

, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.

Description

The shell of ''Semicassis saburon'' can reach a size of about .Arianna Fulvo et Roberto Nistri, 2005 : 350 coquillages du monde entier, Delachaux et Niestlé (Paris) : 256 p. ()

Distribution

This species is present in the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from the Bay of Biscay south to Ghana, and west to the Azores, and the Canaries.

References

* Adanson, M., 1757 Histoire naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages, p. 275 p, 19 pls * Fischer-Piette, E., 1942. Les mollusques d'Adanson. Journal de Conchyliologie 85: 104-366 * Settepassi F. (1970). Atlante malacologico dei molluschi marini viventi nel Mediterraneo Vol. 1.

External links

Bruguière J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344

Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp

Defrance J.L.M. (1804-1845). [Mineralogie et Geologie
In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des différens êtres de la nature (par plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du Roi ..., F[rédéric] Cuvier, ed.). Paris.]
Jeffreys, J. G. (1885). On the Mollusca procured during the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' expeditions, 1868-70 (Part IX). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1885 : 27-63, pl. 4-6

Bronn, H.G. (1832) Ergebnisse meiner Naturhistorisch-Ökonomischen Reisen. Vol. 2. Skizzen und Ausarbeitungen über Italien, nach einem zweyten Besuche im Jahre 1827. Karl Groos, Heidelburg and Leipzig, xviii + 686 pp., 4 pls.

0) Pallary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie. 48(3): 211-422.

Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. I-XIV, 1-303, Tab. XIII-XXVIII. Schropp, Berlin
* Cassidae Gastropods described in 1792 {{Cassidae-stub