Casmaria perryi
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Casmaria perryi is a species of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cassinae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.[1]
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 53 mm.
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Distribution
This marine species occurs off New Zealand,[2] southeastern Australia and Easter Island.
References
- ^ Bouchet, P.; Marshall, B. (2015). Casmaria perryi (Iredale, 1912). In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=724086 on 2015-12-30
- ^ Powell A. W. B. (1979). William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland ISBN 0-00-216906-1.
- Iredale, T. 1912. New generic names and new species of marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 10: 217-228, pl. 9, 3 text figs
- Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1-109
- Abbott, R.T. 1968. The helmet shells of the world (Cassidae). Part 1. Indo-Pacific Mollusca 2(9): 7-201
- Rehder, H.A. 1980. The marine mollusks of Easter Island (Isla de Pascura) and Sala y Gómez. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 289: 1-167
- Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp.
- Kreipl, Kurt. 1997. Recent Cassidae. Verlag Christa Hemmen: Wiesbaden.
- Beu, A.G., Bouchet, P. & Tröndlé, J. 2012. Tonnoidean gastropods of French Polynesia. Molluscan Research 32(2): 61-120
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