Cassidula

Cassidula
A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Order:	Ellobiida
Superfamily:	Ellobioidea
Family:	Ellobiidae
Genus:	Cassidula Férussac, 1821
Type species
Bulimus aurisfelis Bruguière, 1789
Synonyms
Auricula (Cassidula) Férussac, 1821 Cassidula (Cassidula) Férussac, 1821 Cassidula (Cassidulta) Strand, 1942 Cassidulella Thiele, 1934 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulella Strand, 1928 [Coleoptera]; Cassidulta is a replacement name) Cassidulina Thiele, 1931 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulina d'Orbigny, 1826 [Foraminifera]; Cassidulella and Cassidulta are replacement names) Cassidulus Beck, 1838 Melosidula B.J. Smith & Kershaw, 1979 Melampus (Rhodostoma) Swainson, 1840 Rhodostoma Swainson, 1840 Sidula J. E. Gray, 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 in English (Smith, 1992). It belongs to the great division or phylum called the Mollusca and from class of Gastropoda.

Species and subspecies

• Cassidula angulifera (Petit, 1841)
• Cassidula aurisfelis (Bruguière, 1789)
• Cassidula crassiuscula Mousson, 1869
• Cassidula doliolum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1842)
• Cassidula faba (L. Pfeiffer, 1853)
• Cassidula granosula (Iredale, 1936)
• Cassidula labio von Möllendorff, 1887
• Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830)
• Cassidula multiplicata (Martens, 1865)
• Cassidula nucleus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Cassidula paludosa (Garrett, 1872)
• 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): synonym of Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830) (junior synonym)
• Cassidula lutescens Pfeiffer, 1856: synonym of Cassidula labrella (Deshayes, 1830) (junior synonym)
• Cassidula mustelina (Deshayes, 1830): synonym of Cassidula nucleus (Gmelin, 1791) (junior synonym)

References

• 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. Melbourne, FL (USA): American Malacologists. ISBN 0-915826-22-4.
• "Cassidula A. Férussac, 1821". Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

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• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London: Longman.
• 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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