Sassia Explained
Sassia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae.
Species
The genus Sassia contains the following species:
- † Sassia antiqua (Deshayes, 1865)
- † Sassia apenninica (Sassi, 1827)
- † Sassia bernayi (Cossmann, 1889)
- † Sassia bicincta (Deshayes, 1835)
- † Sassia carinulata (Cossmann, 1889)
- † Sassia colubrina (Lamarck, 1803)
- † Sassia cuneata (Cossmann, 1885)
- † Sassia cyphoides (Finlay, 1924)
- † Sassia decagonia (Finlay, 1924)
- † Sassia delafossei (Rouault, 1850)
- † Sassia dumortieri (Baudon, 1853)
- † Sassia faxense (Ravn, 1933)
- † Sassia formosa (Deshayes, 1865)
- † Sassia foveolata (Sandberger, 1860)
- † Sassia lejeunii (Melleville, 1843)
- † Sassia maoria (Finlay, 1924)
- Sassia melpangi Harasewych & Beu, 2007
- Sassia midwayensis (Habe & Okutani, 1968)
- Sassia minima (Hutton, 1873)
- Sassia mozambicana R. Aiken & Seccombe, 2019
- † Sassia multigranifera (Deshayes, 1835)
- Sassia nassariformis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1902)
- † Sassia neozelanica (P. Marshall & R. Murdoch, 1923)
- † Sassia nodularia (Lamarck, 1803)
- † Sassia pahaoaensis (Vella, 1954)
- † Sassia pusulosa (Marwick, 1965)
- † Sassia raulini (Cossmann & Peyrot, 1924)
- Sassia remensa (Iredale, 1936)
- † Sassia reticulosa (Deshayes, 1835)
- † Sassia scabriuscula (Deshayes, 1865)
- Sassia semitorta (Kuroda & Habe, 1961)
- † Sassia striatula (Lamarck, 1803)
- † Sassia tortirostris (Tate, 1888)
- † Sassia tuberculifera (Bronn, 1831)
- Sassia zealta (Laws, 1939)
- Species brought into synonymy:
- † Sassia arthritica (Powell & Bartrum, 1929): synonym of † Proxicharonia arthritica (Powell & Bartrum, 1929)
- Sassia bassi - synonym: Austrotriton bassi (Angas, 1869)
- Sassia epitrema - synonym: Austrotriton epitrema (Tenison Woods, 1877)
- Sassia garrardi (Beu, 1970): synonym of Austrotriton garrardi Beu, 1970
- Sassia jobbernsi (L. C. King, 1933) †: synonym of Sassia kampyla (R. B. Watson, 1883): synonym of Cymatona kampyla (R. B. Watson, 1883)
- Sassia kampyla (R. B. Watson, 1883) - synonym: Cymatona kampyla (Watson, 1883)
- Sassia lewisi Harasewych & Petuch, 1980 - synonym: Personella lewisi (Harasewych & Petuch, 1980)
- Sassia lindneri Parth, 1992: synonym of Austrosassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811)
- Sassia marshalli Beu, 1978: synonym of Sassia remensa (Iredale, 1936)
- Sassia mimetica (Tate, 1893) - synonym: Austrotriton mimetica (Tate, 1893)
- Sassia palmeri (Powell, 1967)- synonym: Proxicharonia palmeri (Powell, 1967)
- Sassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811) - synonym: Austrosassia parkinsonia (Perry, 1811)
- Sassia petulans (Hedley & May, 1908): synonym of Austrotriton petulans (Hedley & May, 1908)
- Sassia philomelae (R. B. Watson, 1881): synonym of Cymatona philomelae (R. B. Watson, 1881)
- Sassia planocincta Wrigley, 1932 †: synonym of Pseudosassia planocincta (Wrigley, 1932) †
- Sassia ponderi Beu, 1987: synonym of Austrosassia ponderi (Beu, 1987)
- Sassia subdistorta (Lamarck, 1822) synonym: Austrotriton subdistortus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Sassia turrita (Eichwald, 1830) †: synonym of Pseudosassia turrita (Eichwald, 1830) †
References
- Cossmann M. (1889). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 24: 3–381, pl. 1-12
Further reading
External links
- Bellardi, L. (1873). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte I. Cephalopoda, Pteropoda, Heteropoda. Gasteropoda (Muricidae et Tritonidae). Stamperia Reale, Torino, 264 pp., 15 pl.
- Iredale, T. (1936). Australian molluscan notes, no. 2. Records of the Australian Museum. 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24
- Cossmann M. (1889). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique. 24: 3-381, pl. 1-12
- Beu A.G. (1998). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM: 19. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), a monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 178: 1-255
