Casmaria ponderosa perryi
| Casmaria ponderosa perryi | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
| Family: | Cassidae |
| Subfamily: | Cassinae |
| Genus: | Semicassis |
| Species: | C. ponderosa |
| Subspecies: | C. ponderosa perryi |
| Trinomial name | |
| Casmaria ponderosa perryi (Iredale, 1912) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Cassidea perryi Iredale, 1912 | |
Casmaria ponderosa perryi is a subspecies of very large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Cassinae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 53 mm.
Distribution
- This marine species occurs along New Zealand,[1] southeastern Australia and Easter Island.
External links
References
- ↑ Powell A. W. B. (1979). William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
- Kreipl, Kurt. 1997. Recent Cassidae. Verlag Christa Hemmen: Wiesbaden.