Cassidula

Cassidula

A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Panpulmonata clade Eupulmonata
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Subfamily:	Pythiinae
Genus:	Cassidula Gray, 1847
Synonyms
Cassidula (Cassidula) Gray, 1847 Cassidula (Cassidulta) Strand, 1942 Cassidulella Thiele, 1934 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulella Strand, 1928 [Coleoptera]; Cassidulta is a replacement names) Cassidulina Thiele, 1931 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulina d'Orbigny, 1826 [Foraminifera]; Cassidulella and Cassidulta are replacement names) Melosidula B.J. Smith & Kershaw, 1979 Rhodostoma Swainson, 1840

Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. ^[1]

Species and subspecies

Cassidula angulifera (Petit, 1841)
Cassidula aurisfelis (Bruguière, 1789)
Cassidula doliolum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1842)
Cassidula granosula (Iredale, 1936)
Cassidula kraussi (Küster, 1844)
Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830)
Cassidula lutescens Pfeiffer, 1856
Cassidula multiplicata (Martens, 1865)
Cassidula nucleus (Gmelin, 1791)
Cassidula philippinarum Hidalgo, 1888
Cassidula plecotrematoides Möllendorff, 1901
- Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica Möllendorff, 1901
Cassidula rugata (Menke, 1843)
Cassidula schmackeriana Möllendorff, 1895
Cassidula sowerbyana (Pfeiffer, 1853)
Cassidula sulculosa (Mousson, 1849)
Cassidula vespertilionis (Lesson, 1831)
Cassidula zonata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855

Species brought into synonymy

Cassidula bilabiata Hedley, 1912: synonym of Cassidula zonata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
Cassidula corona (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791)
Cassidula decussata H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855: synonym of Cassidula sowerbyana (Pfeiffer, 1853)

References

↑ Bouchet, P. (2014). Cassidula Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205152 on 2014-06-10

Martins, A. M. de F. (1996) Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia 37: 163-332.
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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