Semicassis bisulcata

Semicassis bisulcata
Five views of a shell of Semicassis bisulcata booleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Cassidae
Genus:	Semicassis
Species:	S. bisulcata
Binomial name
Semicassis bisulcata (Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829)
Synonyms
Buccinum areola Burrows, 1815 Buccinum tesselatum Wood, 1825 Buccinum tessellatum Wood, 1825 Cassis japonica Reeve, 1848 Cassis minor Küster, H.C., 1852 Cassis nucleus Küster, H.C., 1857 Cassis pfeifferi Hidalgo, J.G., 1871 Cassis saburon "Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de" Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829 Phalium bisulcatum Semicassis (Semicassis) bisulcata (Schubert, H.G. & A.J. Wagner, 1829) Semicassis nashi Iredale, T., 1931

Semicassis bisulcata, common name: the Japanese bonnet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 25 mm and 85 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indo-West Pacific.

References

• Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp