Cypraecassis

Cypraecassis Temporal range: Miocene—Present
Five views of a shell of Cypraecassis rufa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Cassidae
Subfamily:	Cassinae
Genus:	Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837

Cypraecassis is a genus of medium-sized to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cassidae.

Fossil record

Fossils of Cypraecassis are found in marine strata from the Miocene until the Quaternary (age range: from 15.97 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossils are known from various localities in Europe, Central America and India.

Species

Species within the genus Cypraecassis include:

• Cypraecassis coarctata (Sowerby I, 1825)
• Cypraecassis rufa (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cypraecassis tenuis (Wood, 1828)
• Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cypraecassis testiculus senegalica
• Cypraecassis wilmae Kreipl & Alf, 2000

References

• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
• WoRMS info here:

External links

• Natural History Rotterdam images of the family: Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine

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