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Cassidae
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The Cassidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized, large, and sometimes very large sea snails commonly called helmet snails or bonnet snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the clade Littorinimorpha.
Species
helmet shells
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderLittorinimorpha
- FamilyCassidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 446
- With media
- 27
- Family
- Cassidae
- Collections
- UF, CAS, UCMP
- Recorded in
- United States, Taiwan, Egypt, Honduras, Cuba, Tonga, Netherlands
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Distribution
- Shell description
- Anatomy
- Feeding habits
- Taxonomy
- Genera
- Human uses
- References
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The Cassidae are a taxonomic family of medium-sized, large, and sometimes very large sea snails commonly called helmet snails or bonnet snails. These are marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Tonnoidea and the clade Littorinimorpha.
About 60 species comprise the family Cassidae; an example is Cypraecassis rufa.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cassidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.