Cassidula

Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[2]

Cassidula
A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Cassidula
Gray, 1847[1]
Type species
Bulimus aurisfelis
Bruguière, 1789
Synonyms[2]
  • Cassidula (Cassidula) Gray, 1847
  • Cassidula (Cassidulta) Strand, 1942
  • Cassidulella Thiele, 1934 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulella Strand, 1928 [Coleoptera]; Cassidulta is a replacement names)
  • Cassidulina Thiele, 1931 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulina d'Orbigny, 1826 [Foraminifera]; Cassidulella and Cassidulta are replacement names)
  • Melosidula B.J. Smith & Kershaw, 1979
  • Rhodostoma Swainson, 1840

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 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 (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
  1. Gray (1847). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1847: page 179.
  2. 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
  • Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376 [between 4 September and 21 October 1929]; Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778 [before 31 October 1931]; Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022 [before 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). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
  • GBIF info at:
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