Biology:Lyria cassidula

Short description: Species of gastropod

Lyria cassidula
Shell of Lyria cassidula (specimen at Naturalis, Leiden)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Volutidae
Subfamily:	Volutinae
Genus:	Lyria
Subgenus:	Lyria
Species:	L. cassidula
Binomial name
Lyria cassidula (Reeve, 1849)
Synonyms
Lyria (Lyria) cassidula (Reeve, 1849)· accepted, alternate representation Voluta cassidula Reeve, 1849 (original combination)

Lyria cassidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.

Subspecies

• Lyria cassidula cassidula (Reeve, 1849)
• Lyria cassidula pallidula Habe, 1962

External links

• Reeve, L. A. (1849). Monograph of the genus Voluta. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 6, pls 1-22 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.

Wikidata ☰ Q6709899 entry