Phalium bandatum

Banded bonnet
	A shell of Phalium bandatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; cladeHypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cassidae
Family:	Cassidae
Subfamily:	Cassinae
Genus:	Phalium
Species:	P. bandatum
Binomial name
	Phalium bandatum;
Synonyms
	Cassis coronulata Sowerby, G.B. I, 1825; Cassis glauca Bruguière, J.G. in Kiener, L.C., 1835; Cassis muricata Menke, K.T., 1829;

Phalium bandatum, common name the banded bonnet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae.^[1]

There is one subspecies: Phalium bandatum exaratum (Reeve, 1848)

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 40 mm and 140 mm.

This marine species occurs along the coasts of Japan, the Philippines and Northern Australia.

^ WoRMS (2010). Phalium bandatum. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217002 on 2011-06-22

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