Casmaria ponderosa
| 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]
Subspecies :
- Casmaria ponderosa perryi (Iredale, T., 1912)
- Casmaria ponderosa unicolor (Dautzenberg, Ph., 1926)
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 100 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaii.
References
- ↑ Casmaria ponderosa (Link, 1807). WoRMS (2009). Casmaria ponderosa (Link, 1807). Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=211108 on 22 June 2011.
- Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
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