''Cypraecassis'' is a

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of medium-sized to large sea snails,

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gastropod molluscs in the family Cassidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204021 on 2012-06-25 Cassidae - Cypraecassis pseudocrumena

Fossil record

Fossils of ''Cypraecassis'' are found in marine strata from the

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until the Quaternary (age range: from 15.97 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossils are known from various localities in

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and

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Species

Species within the genus ''Cypraecassis'' include: * '' Cypraecassis coarctata ( Sowerby, 1825) * ''

Cypraecassis rufa ''Cypraecassis rufa'' is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cassidae. It is commonly known as the bullmouth shell or red helmet shell, and also as the cameo shell. Distribution This species is found off ...

'' (

Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoological ...

) * '' Cypraecassis tenuis'' (Wood, 1828) * '' Cypraecassis testiculus'' (

) ** '' Cypraecassis testiculus senegalica'' * ''

Cypraecassis wilmae ''Cypraecassis wilmae'' is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae The Cassidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized, large, and sometimes very large sea snails commonly called helmet snails or bonnet ...

'' Kreipl & Alf, 2000

References

* Rolán E., 2005. ''Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.'' * WoRMS info here

External links

* Natural History Rotterdam images of the family

Cassidae {{Cassidae-stub