| Casmaria ponderosa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Cassidae |
| Genus: | Casmaria |
| Species: | C. ponderosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Casmaria ponderosa (Link, 1807) |
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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]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 100 mm.
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaii.