Cassidula

Cassidula is a genus of small air-breathing salt marsh snails, pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Ellobiidae. Cassidula aurisfelis is known as Angulated Shoulder Earsnail, Angulate Vassidula or cat's Ear Cassidula inEnglish (Smith, 1992). It belongs to the great division orphylum called the Mollusca and from class of gastropoda.

(PDF) Study on genetic variability of Cassidula aurisfelis (snail) by random amplified polymorphic DNAs. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290223182_Study_on_genetic_variability_of_Cassidula_aurisfelis_snail_by_random_amplified_polymorphic_DNAs [accessed Mar 20 2025].

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Species and subspecies

• Cassidula angulifera <small>(Petit, 1841)</small>
• Cassidula aurisfelis <small>(Bruguière, 1789)</small>
• Cassidula doliolum <small>(Petit de la Saussaye, 1842)</small>
• Cassidula granosula <small>(Iredale, 1936)</small>
• Cassidula labrella <small>(Deshayes, 1830)</small>
• Cassidula multiplicata <small>(Martens, 1865)</small>
• Cassidula nucleus <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
• Cassidula philippinarum <small>Hidalgo, 1888</small>
• Cassidula plecotrematoides <small>Möllendorff, 1901</small>
• Cassidula plecotrematoides japonica <small>Möllendorff, 1901</small>
• Cassidula rugata <small>(Menke, 1843)</small>
• Cassidula schmackeriana <small>Möllendorff, 1895</small>
• Cassidula sowerbyana <small>(Pfeiffer, 1853)</small>
• Cassidula sulculosa <small>(Mousson, 1849)</small>
• Cassidula vespertilionis <small>(Lesson, 1831)</small>
• Cassidula zonata <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855</small>

• Cassidula bilabiata <small>Hedley, 1912</small>: synonym of Cassidula zonata <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855</small>
• Cassidula corona <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>: synonym of Melongena corona <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
• Cassidula decussata <small>H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855</small>: synonym of Cassidula sowerbyana <small>(Pfeiffer, 1853)</small>
• Cassidula kraussi <small>(Küster, 1844)</small>: synonym of Cassidula labrella <small>(Deshayes, 1830)</small> (junior synonym)
• Cassidula lutescens <small>Pfeiffer, 1856</small>: synonym of Cassidula labrella <small>(Deshayes, 1830)</small> (junior synonym)

References

• Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp.&nbsp;Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376 [between 4 September and 21 October 1929]; Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778 [before 31 October 1931]; Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022 [before 19 January 1934]; Vol. 2 part 4: i-iv, 1023-1154, i-vi for volume 1
• Martins, A. M. de F. (1996) Anatomy and systematics of the Western Atlantic Ellobiidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata). Malacologia 37: 163-332.
• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). . XII, 195 pp
• GBIF info at: https://web.archive.org/web/20160303172257/http://data.gbif.org/species/13149355

External links

• Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology or shells and shell-fish. London, Longman. viii + 419 pp
• Conrad T. A. (1853). "Synopsis of the Genera Cassidula, Humph., and of a proposed new genus Athleta". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6: 448-449.
• http://csvh.org/col08/browse_taxa.php?path=0,1,2200,2371,2598,2606,107972&selected_taxon=107972