Cassidula

Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae.[2]

Cassidula
A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Heterobranchia
Superorder:	Eupulmonata
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 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

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 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)
• Cassidula kraussi (Küster, 1844): synonymù of Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830) (junior synonym)
• Cassidula lutescens Pfeiffer, 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.