Semicassis pyrum | |
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A shell of Semicassis pyrum, lateral view | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Tonnoidea |
Family: | Cassidae |
Subfamily: | Phaliinae |
Genus: | Semicassis |
Species: | S. pyrum |
Binomial name | |
Semicassis pyrum (Lamarck,1822) |
Semicassis pyrum, common name the "pear bonnet" or "common helmet", is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cassidae, the helmet shells, bonnet shells and their allies.