''Cassidula'' is a
genus
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of small air-breathing
salt marsh
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snail
A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...
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 inclu ...
gastropod
Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...
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, marine, and brackish snails; pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the clade Eupulmonata.Bouchet, P. (2012). Ellobiidae. Accessed through: World Register of M ...
. Cassidula aurisfelis is known as Angulated Shoulder Earsnail, Angulate Vassidula or cat's Ear Cassidula inEnglish (Smith, 1992). It belongs to the great division orphylum called the Mollusca and from class of gastropoda.
(PDF) Study on genetic variability of Cassidula aurisfelis (snail) by random amplified polymorphic DNAs. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290223182_Study_on_genetic_variability_of_Cassidula_aurisfelis_snail_by_random_amplified_polymorphic_DNAs
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[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''
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 (ocean), marine Gastropoda, gastropod Mollusca, mollusk in the family (biology), family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.MolluscaBase e ...
''
(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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448-449
Ellobiidae
Gastropod genera
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