Caesia (gastropod)

Caesia is a genus of sea snails in the subfamily Nassariinae of the family Nassariidae.[1]

Caesia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Caesia
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Type species
Nassa perpinguis Hinds, 1844
Synonyms
  • Buccinum (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1882
  • Nassa (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Nassa (Zaphon) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Nassarius (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Nassarius (Demondia) Addicott, 1956
  • Nassarius (Schizopyga) Conrad, 1856
  • Nassarius (Zaphon) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
  • Schizopyga Conrad, 1856 ·

Description

(Described as Zaphon) The shell is bucciniform. The spire is elevated, the whorls rugose. The inner lip shows a spreading, corrugated callus. The outer lip is denticulate, lirate internally, not variced externally. [2]

Species

  • Caesia fossata (A. Gould, 1850)
  • Caesia perpinguis (Hinds, 1844)
  • Caesia rhinetes (S. S. Berry, 1953)
Synonyms
  • Caesia japonica (A. Adams, 1852): synonym of Nassarius praematuratus (Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1960)

References

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