MolluscaBase taxon details
Cassis exigua Tenison Woods, 1879
1647013 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1647013)
accepted
Species
Cassis (Hypocassis) exigua Tenison Woods, 1879 · alternative representation
Cassis (Hypocassis) nana Tenison Woods, 1879 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cassis (Hypocassis) salisburyensis Ludbrook, 1958 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Cassis contusus Tate, 1899 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Cassis nana Tenison Woods, 1879 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Cassis salisburyensis Ludbrook, 1958 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Cassis textilis Tate, 1882 † · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Nannocassis nana (Tenison Woods, 1879) · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Tenison Woods, J. E. (1879). On some Tertiary fossils. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 4(1): 1-20, 4 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6406491
page(s): 17 [details]
page(s): 17 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cassis exigua Tenison Woods, 1879. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1647013 on 2025-03-30
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
original description
Tenison Woods, J. E. (1879). On some Tertiary fossils. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 4(1): 1-20, 4 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6406491
page(s): 17 [details]
original description (of Cassis nana Tenison Woods, 1879) Tenison-Woods J.E. (1879) On some new marine shells. <i>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales</i> 4: 21-24, pl. 4. [Published 16 June 1879, not 1880 which is the date indicated on the frontpiece of the whole volume] [details]
original description (of Cassis (Hypocassis) salisburyensis Ludbrook, 1958) Ludbrook, N.H. (1958). The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part V-Gastropoda (Eratoidae to Scaphandridae). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 81: 43-111, 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41001264
page(s): 51 [details]
original description (of Cassis textilis Tate, 1882 †) Tate, R. (1882). Diagnoses of new species of Miocene fossils from South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 5: 44-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16208949
page(s): 45 [details]
original description (of Cassis contusus Tate, 1899) Tate, R. (1899) On some older Tertiary fossils of uncertain age from the Murray Desert. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 23, 102–111, 1 pl.
page(s): 108 [details]
additional source Darragh, T. A. (2023). A taxonomic revision of Australian Cenozoic Cassidae and Tonnidae species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>Alcheringa: An Australian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 48 (1): 168-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2268689 [details]
additional source Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 83: 37-206.
page(s): 80 [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 17 [details]
original description (of Cassis nana Tenison Woods, 1879) Tenison-Woods J.E. (1879) On some new marine shells. <i>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales</i> 4: 21-24, pl. 4. [Published 16 June 1879, not 1880 which is the date indicated on the frontpiece of the whole volume] [details]
original description (of Cassis (Hypocassis) salisburyensis Ludbrook, 1958) Ludbrook, N.H. (1958). The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene strata underlying the Adelaide Plains. Part V-Gastropoda (Eratoidae to Scaphandridae). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 81: 43-111, 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41001264
page(s): 51 [details]
original description (of Cassis textilis Tate, 1882 †) Tate, R. (1882). Diagnoses of new species of Miocene fossils from South Australia. Transactions and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of South Australia, 5: 44-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16208949
page(s): 45 [details]
original description (of Cassis contusus Tate, 1899) Tate, R. (1899) On some older Tertiary fossils of uncertain age from the Murray Desert. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 23, 102–111, 1 pl.
page(s): 108 [details]
additional source Darragh, T. A. (2023). A taxonomic revision of Australian Cenozoic Cassidae and Tonnidae species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>Alcheringa: An Australian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 48 (1): 168-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2023.2268689 [details]
additional source Darragh, T. A. (2024). A checklist of Australian marine Cenozoic Mollusca. <em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria.</em> 83: 37-206.
page(s): 80 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Cassis nana Tenison Woods, 1879)
To Conchology (Cassis nana) (from synonym Cassis nana Tenison Woods, 1879)
To Malacopics (Cassis exigua Tenison Woods, 1879 Australia, Queensland, Capricorn Channel, at 125 ...
To Conchology (Cassis nana) (from synonym Cassis nana Tenison Woods, 1879)
To Malacopics (Cassis exigua Tenison Woods, 1879 Australia, Queensland, Capricorn Channel, at 125 ...
Unreviewed
Hosted externally, from synonym
