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Semicassis bisulcata

Semicassis bisulcata
Semicassis bisulcata booleyi 01.JPG
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
  • Buccinum areola Burrows, 1815
  • Buccinum tesselatum Wood, 1825
  • Buccinum tessellatum Wood, 1825
  • Cassis japonica Reeve, 1848
  • Cassis minor Küster, H.C., 1852
  • Cassis nucleus Küster, H.C., 1857
  • Cassis pfeifferi Hidalgo, J.G., 1871
  • Cassis saburon "Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de" Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829
  • Phalium bisulcatum
  • Semicassis (Semicassis) bisulcata (Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829)
  • Semicassis nashi Iredale, T., 1931

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.

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 85 mm.

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific.



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