Semicassis bisulcata

Semicassis bisulcata
Five views of a shell of Semicassis bisulcata booleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Tonnoidea
Family: Cassidae
Genus: Semicassis
Species: S. bisulcata
Binomial name
Semicassis bisulcata
(Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum areola Burrows, 1815
  • Buccinum tesselatum Wood, 1825
  • Buccinum tessellatum Wood, 1825
  • Cassis japonica Reeve, 1848
  • Cassis minor Küster, H.C., 1852
  • Cassis nucleus Küster, H.C., 1857
  • Cassis pfeifferi Hidalgo, J.G., 1871
  • Cassis saburon "Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de" Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829
  • Phalium bisulcatum
  • Semicassis (Semicassis) bisulcata (Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829)
  • Semicassis nashi Iredale, T., 1931

Semicassis bisulcata, common name: the Japanese bonnet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.[2]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 85 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

  1. ↑ Gastropods.com : Semicassis (Semicassis) bisulcata; accessed : 22 June 2011
  2. ↑ Semicassis bisulcata . WoRMS (2009). Semicassis bisulcata. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id= 578275 on 4 December 2012.
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