Helmet Shell – Cassidae

Classification:

Class: Gastropoda

Clade: Littorinimorpha

Superfamily: Tonnoidea

Family: Cassidae

Major Genera

• Genus: Casmaria
• Genus: Cassis
• Genus: Cypraecassis
• Genus: Galeodea
• Genus: Galeoocorys
• Genus: Morum
• Genus: Oocorys
• Genus: Phalium
• Genus: Sconsia

Cassidae dapat tumbuh dengan sangat besar dan cangkang mereka melambangkan Helm dari prajurit Romawi. Habitat mereka di daerah berpasir. Di siang hari mereka menguburkan diri mereka kedalam pasir, sedangkan di malam hari mereka berburu bulu babi, sand dollar, bintang laut dll, dengan menggunakan zat kimia yang di suntikan ke tubuh mangsanya di lubang anus atau dengan mengebor lubang.

Giant Helmet Shell (Cassis cornuta)

Di kenal juga dengan Helmet Shells, Giant Cassis Cornuta, Giant Helmet, Helmet Seashell, Helmet Shell, Giant Horned Helmet Conch, Horned Helmet Shell, Horned Helmet, Hawaiian Helmet Shell and Bonnet Snails.

Length – 22cm
Depth – 5-30m
Grey Bonnet (Phalium glaucum)

Di kenal juga dengan Helmet Shells, Helmet Seashell, Helmet Shell, Grey Bonnet Snail and Bonnet Snails.

Length – 15cm
Depth – 5-30m
Widespread Indo-West Pacific

Phalium bandatum Shell (Phalium bandatum)

Di kenal juga dengan Helmet Shells, Helmet Seashell, Helmet Shell and Bonnet Snails.

Length – 40cm
Depth – 5-30m

Merica melanostoma        CASSIDAE GRANULATA UNDULATA    CASSIDAE BISULCATA

 

 

 

Cassis (Hypocassis) nana	Cassis (Hypocassis) patamakanthini	Cassis (Hypocassis) tessellata	Cypraecassis coarctata	Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) rufa
Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) tenuis	Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) testiculus testiculus	Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) testiculus senegalica	Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) testiculus senegalica crumena (var.)	Cypraecassis (Cypraecassis) wilmae
Galeodea alcocki	Galeodea (Galeodea) bituminata	Galeodea (Galeodea) echinophora	Galeodea (Galeodea) echinophora adriatica (var.)	Galeodea (Galeodea) echinophora globosa (var.)
Galeodea (Galeodea) echinophora obsoleta (var.)	Galeodea (Galeodea) echinophora solida (var.)	Galeodea (Galeodea) hoaraui	Galeodea (Galeodea) keyteri	Galeodea (Galeodea) maccamleyi
Galeodea (Galeodea) marginalba	Galeodea (Galeodea) rugosa	Galeodea (Galeodea) thyrena	Galeodea (Galeodea) triganceae	Galeodea (Galeoocorys) leucodoma
Galeodea (Galeoocorys) nipponica	Sconsia alexarthuri	Sconsia grayi	Sconsia lindae	Sconsia nephele

		Subfamily : CASSIDAE PHALIINAE
Phalium areola	Phalium areola magnita (var.)	Phalium bandatum	Phalium decussatum	Phalium decussatum flammeola (var.)
Phalium evdoxiae	Phalium exaratum	Phalium fimbria	Phalium flammiferum	Phalium glaucum
Phalium muangmani	Phalium pseudobandatum	Echinophoria bituberculosa	Echinophoria carnosa	Echinophoria coronadoi
Echinophoria kurodai	Echinophoria mozambicana	Echinophoria oschei	Echinophoria pilsbryi	Echinophoria wyvillei
Echinophoria wyvillei oschei (var.)	Casmaria atlantica	Casmaria boblehmani	Casmaria cernica	Casmaria erinaceus
Casmaria erinaceus vibex (var.)	Casmaria erinaceus vibexmexicana (var.)	Casmaria kalosmodix	Casmaria kayae	Casmaria perryi
Casmaria ponderosa	Casmaria ponderosa bicolor (var.)	Casmaria ponderosa nodulosa (var.)	Casmaria ponderosa quadrata (var.)	Casmaria turgida
Casmaria unicolor	Semicassis angasi	Semicassis bisulcata	Semicassis bisulcata booleyi (var.)	Semicassis bisulcata diuturna (var.)
Semicassis bisulcata japonica (var.)	Semicassis bisulcata persimilis (var.)	Semicassis bisulcata pila (var.)	Semicassis bondarevi	Semicassis bulla
Semicassis bulla obscura (var.)	Semicassis canaliculata	Semicassis cancellata	Semicassis craticulata	Semicassis dorae
Semicassis faurotis	Semicassis fernandesi	Semicassis glabrata	Semicassis granulata	Semicassis granulata cicatricosa (var.)
Semicassis granulata peristephes (var.)	Semicassis centiquadrata	Semicassis undulata	Semicassis inornata	Semicassis inornata debiae (var.)
Semicassis labiata	Semicassis labiata collactea (var.)	Semicassis labiata insperata (var.)	Semicassis iheringi	Semicassis zeylanica
Semicassis zeylanica iredalei (var.)	Semicassis adcocki	Semicassis decipiens	Semicassis dougthorni	Semicassis microstoma
Semicassis paucirugis	Semicassis pyrum	Semicassis pyrum hamiltoni (var.)	Semicassis pyrum hedleyi (var.)	Semicassis pyrum niveum (var.)
Semicassis pyrum stadiale (var.)	Semicassis royana	Semicassis saburon	Semicassis salmonea	Semicassis semigranosa
Semicassis sinuosa	Semicassis sinuosa angustata (var.)	Semicassis sophia	Semicassis thachi	Semicassis thomsoni
Semicassis umbilicata	Semicassis westralis	Semicassis whitworthi

 

Oocorys clericus	Oocorys elevata	Oocorys ferrarioi	Oocorys grandis
Oocorys lussii	Oocorys rotunda	Oocorys schepmani	Oocorys sulcata	Oocorys sulcata indica (var.)
Oocorys verrillii	Oocorys weberi	Hadroocorys tosaensis	Dalium solidum	Benthodolium pacifica