Semicassis bisulcata
Semicassis bisulcata | |
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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] | |
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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
- ↑ Gastropods.com : Semicassis (Semicassis) bisulcata; accessed : 22 June 2011
- ↑ 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.
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
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