Cassis tessellata

Cassis tessellata, common name : the West African helmet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.[1]

Cassis tessellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Cassidae
Genus: Cassis
Species:
C. tessellata
Binomial name
Cassis tessellata
Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum maculosa Gmelin, J.F., 1791
  • Buccinum rumpfii Gmelin, J.F., 1791
  • Cassis coronata Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Cassis fasciata Bruguière, J.G., 1792
  • Cassis spinosa "Gronovius" Deshayes, G.P., 1844
  • Cassis spinosa "Meuschen, F.C." Iredale, T., 1927

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 66 mm and 300 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean along Cape Verde and from Senegal to Angola.

References
  1. Cassis tessellata Gmelin, 1791. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.
  • Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  • "Cassis (Cassis) tessellata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
  • Media related to Cassis tessellata at Wikimedia Commons
  • Photos of Cassis tessellata on Sealife Collection


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