Cassidula

Cassidula
A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Cassidula Gray, 1847 [1]
Type species
Bulimus aurisfelis Bruguière, 1789
Synonyms [2]
Cassidula (Cassidula)Gray, 1847 Cassidula (Cassidulta)Strand, 1942 CassidulellaThiele, 1934 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulella Strand, 1928 [Coleoptera]; Cassidulta is a replacement names) CassidulinaThiele, 1931 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulina d'Orbigny, 1826 [Foraminifera]; Cassidulella and Cassidulta are replacement names) MelosidulaB.J. Smith & Kershaw, 1979 RhodostomaSwainson, 1840

Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. Cassidula aurisfelis is known as Angulated Shoulder Earsnail, Angulate Vassidula or cat's Ear Cassidula inEnglish (Smith, 1992). It belongs to the great division orphylum called the Mollusca and from class of gastropoda.

(PDF) Study on genetic variability of Cassidula aurisfelis (snail) by random amplified polymorphic DNAs. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290223182_Study_on_genetic_variability_of_Cassidula_aurisfelis_snail_by_random_amplified_polymorphic_DNAs [accessed Mar 20 2025].

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Species and subspecies

• Cassidula angulifera (Petit, 1841)
• Cassidula aurisfelis (Bruguière, 1789)
• Cassidula doliolum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1842)
• Cassidula granosula (Iredale, 1936)
• Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830)
• 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 bilabiataHedley, 1912: synonym of Cassidula zonataH. Adams & A. Adams, 1855
• Cassidula corona(Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Melongena corona (Gmelin, 1791)
• Cassidula decussataH. Adams & A. Adams, 1855: synonym of Cassidula sowerbyana(Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Cassidula kraussi(Küster, 1844): synonym of Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830) (junior synonym)
• Cassidula lutescensPfeiffer, 1856: synonym of Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830) (junior synonym)

References

1. Gray (1847). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1847: page 179.
2. 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

• Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376 [between 4 September and 21 October 1929]; Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778 [before 31 October 1931]; Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022 [before 19 January 1934]; Vol. 2 part 4: i-iv, 1023-1154, i-vi for volume 1
• 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
• GBIF info at:

External links

• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
• Conrad T. A. (1853). "Synopsis of the Genera Cassidula, Humph., and of a proposed new genus Athleta". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 448-449.
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