🦋 Family

Cassidae

14 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Cassidae

Cassis tuberosa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cassis tuberosa is a marine snail species found in Atlantic shallow waters, whose attractive shells are collected to carve cameos.

Cassis cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cassis cornuta is the largest helmet shell, a large sea snail found across multiple Indo-Pacific marine regions.

Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822

Cassis madagascariensis is an invertebrate mollusk found in the tropical Western Atlantic, with shells used in jewelry and traditional medicine.

Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cypraecassis testiculus is a marine species found in the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas at depths up to 60 m.

Phalium areola (Linnaeus, 1758)

Phalium areola is a medium-sized marine species with distinctively spotted shells found across parts of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.

Phalium glaucum (Linnaeus, 1758)

Phalium glaucum is a widespread Indo-Pacific helmet-shaped sea snail that lives in shallow sandy seagrass habitats.

Phalium bandatum (Perry, 1811)

Phalium bandatum is a marine species with adult shells 40–140 mm, found off Japan, the Philippines, and Northern Australia.

Semicassis granulata (Born, 1778)

Semicassis granulata, the Scotch bonnet, is a Western Atlantic sea snail and North Carolina's official state shell.

Semicassis centiquadrata (Valenciennes, 1832)

Semicassis centiquadrata is a marine species with shells 33–83 mm long, found from western Mexico to Peru and off the Galápagos.

Semicassis pyrum (Lamarck, 1822)

Semicassis pyrum, the pear bonnet or common helmet, is a large marine gastropod species in the Cassidae snail family.

Semicassis bisulcata (Schubert & J.A.Wagner, 1829)

Semicassis bisulcata is a carnivorous marine gastropod found in the Red Sea and Indo-West Pacific.

Semicassis labiata (Perry, 1811)

Semicassis labiata is a marine snail species with distinctive variable shells, distributed across New Zealand and Southern Africa.

Semicassis saburon (Bruguière, 1792)

Semicassis saburon is a sea snail species with shells 35–75 mm found in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic.

Semicassis undulata (Gmelin, 1791)

Semicassis undulata is a medium-sized marine helmet/bonnet snail found in the Mediterranean and parts of the Atlantic.

Related Families

Cypraeidae 60 species Littorinidae 43 species Naticidae 25 species Strombidae 20 species Calyptraeidae 17 species Cymatiidae 15 species Ovulidae 12 species Tonnidae 7 species

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