Biology:Caesia (gastropod)

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Caesia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Caesia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Type species
Nassa perpinguis Hinds, 1844
Synonyms
Buccinum (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1882 Nassa (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Nassa (Zaphon) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Nassarius (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Nassarius (Demondia) Addicott, 1956 † Nassarius (Schizopyga) Conrad, 1856 † Nassarius (Zaphon) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Schizopyga Conrad, 1856 ·

Caesia is a genus of sea snails in the subfamily Nassariinae of the family Nassariidae.

Description

(Described as Zaphon) The shell is bucciniform. The spire is elevated, the whorls rugose. The inner lip shows a spreading, corrugated callus. The outer lip is denticulate, lirate internally, not variced externally.

Species

• Caesia fossata (A. Gould, 1850)
• Caesia perpinguis (Hinds, 1844)
• Caesia rhinetes (S. S. Berry, 1953)

Synonyms

• Caesia japonica (A. Adams, 1852): synonym of Nassarius praematuratus (Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1960)

External links

• Conrad, T. A. (1856). Descriptions of three new genera; twenty-three new species middle Tertiary fossils from California and one from Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8: 312-336
• Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst.
• Adams, A. (1870). On some proboscidiferous gasteropods which inhabit the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,. Series 4, 5: 418–430.
• Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353

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