Sassia

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Sassia
Sassia semitorta shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Cymatiidae
Genus:	Sassia Bellardi, 1873 [1]
Synonyms [2]
† Charonia (Sassia)Bellardi, 1873 Eutritonium (Sassia)Bellardi, 1873 Lampusia (Sassia)Bellardi, 1873 † MonocirsusCossmann, 1889 · Phanozesta Iredale, 1936 SassoiaRovereto, 1900 (unjustified emendation of Sassia) Triton (Sassia)Bellardi, 1873

Sassia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae. ^[2]

Species

The genus Sassia contains the following species: ^[2]

• † Sassia antiqua (Deshayes, 1865)
• † Sassia apenninica (Sassi, 1827)
• † Sassia bernayi (Cossmann, 1889)
• † Sassia bicincta (Deshayes, 1835)
• † Sassia carinulata (Cossmann, 1889)
• † Sassia colubrina (Lamarck, 1803)
• † Sassia cuneata (Cossmann, 1885)
• † Sassia cyphoides (Finlay, 1924)
• † Sassia decagonia (Finlay, 1924)
• † Sassia delafossei (Rouault, 1850)
• † Sassia dumortieri (Baudon, 1853)
• † Sassia faxense (Ravn, 1933)
• † Sassia formosa (Deshayes, 1865)
• † Sassia foveolata (Sandberger, 1860)
• † Sassia lejeunii (Melleville, 1843)
• † Sassia maoria (Finlay, 1924)
• Sassia melpangi Harasewych & Beu, 2007
• Sassia midwayensis (Habe & Okutani, 1968)
• Sassia minima (Hutton, 1873)
• Sassia mozambicana R. Aiken & Seccombe, 2019
• † Sassia multigranifera (Deshayes, 1835)
• Sassia nassariformis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1902)
• † Sassia neozelanica (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1923)
• † Sassia nodularia (Lamarck, 1803)
• † Sassia pahaoaensis (Vella, 1954)
• † Sassia pusulosa (Marwick, 1965)
• † Sassia raulini (Cossmann & Peyrot, 1924)
• Sassia remensa (Iredale, 1936)
• † Sassia reticulosa (Deshayes, 1835)
• † Sassia scabriuscula (Deshayes, 1865)
• Sassia semitorta (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
• † Sassia striatula (Lamarck, 1803)
• † Sassia tortirostris (Tate, 1888)
• † Sassia tuberculifera (Bronn, 1831)
• Sassia zealta (Laws, 1939)

Species brought into synonymy

• † Sassia arthritica(Powell & Bartrum, 1929): synonym of † Proxicharonia arthritica (Powell & Bartrum, 1929)
• Sassia bassi - synonym: Austrotriton bassi (Angas, 1869)
• Sassia epitrema - synonym: Austrotriton epitrema (Tenison Woods, 1877)
• Sassia garrardi(Beu, 1970): synonym of Austrotriton garrardi Beu, 1970
• Sassia jobbernsi(L. C. King, 1933) †: synonym of Sassia kampyla(R. B. Watson, 1883): synonym of Cymatona kampyla (R. B. Watson, 1883)
• Sassia kampyla(R. B. Watson, 1883) - synonym: Cymatona kampyla (Watson, 1883)
• Sassia lewisiHarasewych & Petuch, 1980 - synonym: Personella lewisi (Harasewych & Petuch, 1980)
• Sassia lindneriParth, 1992: synonym of Austrosassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811)
• Sassia marshalliBeu, 1978: synonym of Sassia remensa(Iredale, 1936)
• Sassia mimetica(Tate, 1893) - synonym: Austrotriton mimetica (Tate, 1893)
• Sassia palmeri(Powell, 1967)- synonym: Proxicharonia palmeri (Powell, 1967)
• Sassia parkinsonia(Perry, 1811) - synonym: Austrosassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811)
• Sassia petulans(Hedley & May, 1908): synonym of Austrotriton petulans (Hedley & May, 1908)
• Sassia philomelae(R. B. Watson, 1881): synonym of Cymatona philomelae (R. B. Watson, 1881)
• Sassia planocinctaWrigley, 1932 †: synonym of Pseudosassia planocincta (Wrigley, 1932) †
• Sassia ponderiBeu, 1987: synonym of Austrosassia ponderi (Beu, 1987)
• Sassia subdistorta(Lamarck, 1822) synonym: Austrotriton subdistortus (Lamarck, 1822)
• Sassia turrita(Eichwald, 1830) †: synonym of Pseudosassia turrita (Eichwald, 1830) †

References

1. Bellardi, L. (1873). Moll. Terr. terz. Piemonte Liguria1: 219.
2. Sassia Bellardi, 1873 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 December 2018.

• Cossmann M. (1889). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 24: 3–381, pl. 1-12

Further reading

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN   0-00-216906-1

External links

• Bellardi, L. (1873). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte I. Cephalopoda, Pteropoda, Heteropoda. Gasteropoda (Muricidae et Tritonidae). Stamperia Reale, Torino, 264 pp., 15 pl.
• Iredale, T. (1936). Australian molluscan notes, no. 2. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 Archived 2020-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
• Cossmann M. (1889). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 24: 3-381, pl. 1-12
• Beu A.G. (1998). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM: 19. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), a monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 178: 1-255