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Cassidula

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Phylum:Mollusca
Order:Ellobiida
Superfamily:Ellobioidea
Cassidula
A shell of Cassidula plecotrematoides subspecies japonica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Ellobiida
Superfamily: Ellobioidea
Family: Ellobiidae
Genus: Cassidula
Gray, 1847[1]
Type species
Bulimus aurisfelis
Bruguière, 1789
Synonyms[2]
  • Cassidula (Cassidula) Gray, 1847
  • Cassidula (Cassidulta) Strand, 1942
  • Cassidulella Thiele, 1934 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulella Strand, 1928 [Coleoptera]; Cassidulta is a replacement names)
  • Cassidulina Thiele, 1931 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulina d'Orbigny, 1826 [Foraminifera]; Cassidulella and Cassidulta are replacement names)
  • Melosidula B.J. Smith & Kershaw, 1979
  • Rhodostoma Swainson, 1840

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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