MolluscaBase - Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822

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Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822

AphiaID

419778 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:419778)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Goniogalea Mörch, 1857

Parent

Cassis Scopoli, 1777

Original name

Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822

Synonymised names

Cassis (Cassis) madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822 · alternative representation

Cassis cameo W. Stimpson, 1860 · unaccepted

Cassis madagascariensis f. spinella Clench, 1944 · unaccepted

Cassis madagascariensis spinella Clench, 1944 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cassis madagascariensis var. major Rigacci, 1866 · unaccepted

Cassis madagascariensis var. minor Rigacci, 1866 · unaccepted

Cassis rotundata Perry, 1811 · unaccepted (Declared a nomen oblitum by Petit...)

Declared a nomen oblitum by Petit (2003) under ICZN Article 23.9.2

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Forma Cassis madagascariensis f. spinella Clench, 1944 accepted as Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822
Subspecies Cassis madagascariensis spinella Clench, 1944 accepted as Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Variety Cassis madagascariensis var. major Rigacci, 1866 accepted as Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822
Variety Cassis madagascariensis var. minor Rigacci, 1866 accepted as Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822

Environment

marine

Original description

Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): p. 219. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cassis madagascariensis Lamarck, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419778 on 2025-04-01

Taxonomic edit history

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2009-10-06 12:38:14Z

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2013-08-21 23:40:39Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

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Nomenclature

original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): p. 219. [details]

original description (of Cassis madagascariensis spinella Clench, 1944) Clench, W. J. (1944). The genera Casmaria, Galeodea, Phalium & Cassis in the Western Atlantic. Johnsonia. 1(16): 1-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41114083
page(s): 15-16, pl. 8 [details]

original description (of Cassis cameo W. Stimpson, 1860) Stimpson, W. (1860). A trip to Beaufort, N. Carolina. American Journal of Science and Arts. 29: 442-449., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36995160
page(s): p. 443 (in text) [details]

basis of record Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] Available for editors

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Other

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

additional source Beu, A. G. (2010). Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 377-378: 1-550.
page(s): 219 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Lyman, F. B. (1937). Food of Cassis madagascariensis. The Nautilus. 51(1): 34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9203227 [details]

additional source Wolfe, D. A. (1967). Cassis madagascariensis and C. m. spinella offshore at Beaufort, North Carolina. The Nautilus. 81(2): 47-48., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8528064 [details]