Casmaria ponderosa

Casmaria ponderosa, common name the heavy bonnet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.[1]

Casmaria ponderosa
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C. ponderosa
Binomial name
Casmaria ponderosa
(Link, 1807)
Subspecies

Casmaria ponderosa perryi

Synonyms
  • Buccinum biarmatum Dillwyn, L.W., 1817
  • Buccinum nodulosum Gmelin, 1791
  • Buccinum pantherina "Solander, D.C." Dillwyn, L.W., 1817
  • Buccinum ponderosum Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
  • Casmaria ponderosa ponderosa (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Casmaria ponderosa var. bicolor Dautzenberg, 1926
  • Cassis tenuilabris Menke, K.T., 1828
  • Cassis torquata Reeve, L.A., 1848
  • Phalium biarnatum Dillwyn, L.W., 1817
  • Phalium ponderosa [sic]
  • Phalium ponderosum (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Phalium quadratum Link, 1807
  • Phalium torquatum (Reeve, 1848)

Subspecies

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 100 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin, and in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.

References

  1. Casmaria ponderosa (Link, 1807). WoRMS (2009). Casmaria ponderosa (Link, 1807). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211108 on 22 June 2011 .
  • Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
  • Drivas, J. & Jay, M. (1987). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'Île Maurice. Collection Les Beautés de la Nature. Delachaux et Niestlé: Neuchâtel. ISBN 2-603-00654-1. 159 pp.
  • Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289
  • Buijse J.A., Dekker H. & Verbinnen G. (2013) On the identity of Casmaria species (Gastropoda, Cassidae), with descriptions of two new species. Acta Conchyliorum 14: 3-93.
  • Verbinnen G., Segers L., Swinnen F., Kreipl K. & Monsecour D. (2016). Cassidae. An amazing family of seashells. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 251 pp


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