Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Littorinimorpha > Cassidae > Cassis > Cassis tuberosa

Cassis tuberosa (Caribbean helmet)

Synonyms: Buccinum striatum (heterotypic); Buccinum tuberosum; Cassidea tuberosa; Cassis triangularis; Cassis triquetra

Wikipedia Abstract

Cassis tuberosa, the king helmet, is a species of very large sea snail with a solid, heavy shell, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Cassidae, the helmet shells and their allies.
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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0