WoRMS taxon details
Cassis cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 208963
AphiaID: 208963
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Tonnoidea (Superfamily) > Cassidae (Family) > Cassis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Cassis Scopoli, 1771 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Distribution | Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (139 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: The largest of all helmet shells, ;up to 35 cm. A very solid, heavy, rotund shell with large, horn-like knobs and a wide, flat base. Dorsally pale orange, base vivid orange, faintly marked with white and brown. Habitat: sand and coral rubble, often around reefs. Distribution: Indo-Pacific. (Richmond, 1997). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208963 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Cassis cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208963 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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