Cassis tessellata

Cassis tessellata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Cassidae
Subfamily:	Cassinae
Genus:	Cassis
Species:	C. tessellata
Binomial name
	Cassis tessellata; Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms
	Buccinum maculosa Gmelin, J.F., 1791; Buccinum rumpfii Gmelin, J.F., 1791; Cassis coronata Röding, P.F., 1798; Cassis fasciata Bruguière, J.G., 1792; Cassis spinosa "Gronovius" Deshayes, G.P., 1844; Cassis spinosa "Meuschen, F.C." Iredale, T., 1927;

Cassis tessellata, common name : the West African helmet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.^[1]

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 66 mm and 300 mm.

This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean along Cape Verde and from Senegal to Angola.

^ ^a ^b Cassis tessellata Gmelin, 1791. WoRMS (2009). Cassis tessellata Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224273 on 22 June 2011 .

Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp
Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp.
Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.

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