Casmaria ponderosa
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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.
Subspecies :
and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaii
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Common name
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the heavy bonnet, is a species
Species
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of large sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
, a marine
Marine (ocean)
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gastropod mollusk in the family
Family (biology)
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Cassidae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.
Subspecies :
- Casmaria ponderosa perryiCasmaria ponderosa perryiCasmaria ponderosa perryi is a subspecies of very large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the subfamily Cassinae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.-Description:The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 53 mm....
(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 SeaRed Sea
The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez...
and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
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