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Casmaria ponderosa

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Kingdom
  
Superfamily
  
Tonnoidea

Genus
  
Phylum
  
Class
  
Family
  
Scientific name
  
Casmaria ponderosa

Rank
  
Species

Casmaria ponderosa

Similar
  
Casmaria, Casmaria erinaceus, Phalium flammiferum, Phalium areola, Semicassis

Casmaria ponderosa, common name the heavy bonnet, is a species of large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.

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Subspecies

  • Casmaria ponderosa perryi (Iredale, T., 1912)
  • Casmaria ponderosa unicolor (Dautzenberg, Ph., 1926)
  • Description

    The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 100 mm.

    Distribution

    This species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin, and in the Pacific Ocean off Hawaii.

    References

    Casmaria ponderosa Wikipedia


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