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Cassidula

Poole, Karen E.

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Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. Cassidula aurisfelis is known as Angulated Shoulder Earsnail, Angulate Vassidula or cat's Ear Cassidula inEnglish (Smith, 1992). It belongs to the great division orphylum called the Mollusca and from class of gastropoda.

Species

KINGDOM

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumMollusca
  3. ClassGastropoda
  4. OrderEllobiida
  5. FamilyEllobiidae
Habitatbrackish

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
231
With media
30
Family
Ellobiidae
Collections
RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, USNM, PRI, UF, FMNH, CM
Recorded in
Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Australia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Ellobiidae
Image
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Commons category
Cassidula
taxon name
Cassidula
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Cassidula
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Encyclopedic overview

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Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. Cassidula aurisfelis is known as Angulated Shoulder Earsnail, Angulate Vassidula or cat's Ear Cassidula inEnglish (Smith, 1992). It belongs to the great division orphylum called the Mollusca and from class of gastropoda.

(PDF) Study on genetic variability of Cassidula aurisfelis (snail) by random amplified polymorphic DNAs. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290223182_Study_on_genetic_variability_of_Cassidula_aurisfelis_snail_by_random_amplified_polymorphic_DNAs [accessed Mar 20 2025].

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