Semicassis undulata

Semicassis undulata
A live individual from Italy
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Cassidae
Subfamily: Cassinae
Genus: Semicassis
Species: S. undulata
Binomial name
Semicassis undulata
(Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms[1]
  • Phalium granulatum (Von Born, 1778)
  • Phalium undulatum (Gmelin, 1791)

Semicassis undulata is a medium-sized species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Cassinae.

This is a Mediterranean species. It has sometimes been confused with the rather similar Western Atlantic species, Semicassis granulata.

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