WoRMS name details
Cassidea Bruguière, 1789
474851 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:474851)
unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Genus
Buccinum cornutum Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Cassis cornuta (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
- Subgenus Cassidea (Cassidaria) Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Galeodea Link, 1807 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cassidea (Cassidaria) echinophora (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Cassidea (Cypraeicassis) Cossmann, 1903 accepted as Cypraecassis Stutchbury, 1837 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cassidea (Cypraeicassis) crumena (Bruguière, 1792) accepted as Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Subgenus Cassidea (Echinophoria) Sacco, 1890 accepted as Echinophoria Sacco, 1890 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Cassidea (Semicassis) Mörch, 1852 accepted as Semicassis Mörch, 1852 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Cassidea bandata Perry, 1811 accepted as Phalium bandatum (Perry, 1811) (original combination)
- Species Cassidea canaliculata Bruguière, 1792 accepted as Semicassis canaliculata (Bruguière, 1792) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Cassidea cernica (G. B. Sowerby III, 1888) accepted as Casmaria cernica (G. B. Sowerby III, 1888)
- Species Cassidea crumena Bruguière, 1792 accepted as Cypraecassis testiculus (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cassidea fasciata Bruguière, 1792 accepted as Cassis tessellata (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cassidea granulosa Bruguière, 1792 accepted as Semicassis granulata (Born, 1778) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cassidea labiata G. Perry, 1811 accepted as Semicassis labiata (G. Perry, 1811) (superseded combination)
- Species Cassidea perryi Iredale, 1912 accepted as Casmaria perryi (Iredale, 1912) (superseded combination)
- Species Cassidea royana Iredale, 1914 accepted as Semicassis royana (Iredale, 1914) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Cassidea saburon Bruguière, 1792 accepted as Semicassis saburon (Bruguière, 1792)
- Species Cassidea sinuosa Verco, 1904 accepted as Semicassis sinuosa (Verco, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Cassidea stadialis Hedley, 1914 accepted as Semicassis pyrum (Lamarck, 1822) (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cassidea strigata Shirley, 1911 accepted as Phalium glaucum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cassidea sulcosa Bruguière, 1792 accepted as Semicassis undulata (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Cassidea tuberculata Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 accepted as Argobuccinum pustulosum ([Lightfoot], 1786) (junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. <em>Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke.</em> volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 [details]
Note see discussion in Iredale, 1927: 324-327
Type species see discussion in Iredale, 1927: 324-327 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cassidea Bruguière, 1789. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=474851 on 2026-05-30
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Nomenclature
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Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. <em>Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke.</em> volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 [details]
From editor or global species database
Type species see discussion in Iredale, 1927: 324-327 [details]
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