Cassis flammea (flame helmet snail) (24428457114)
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Summary[edit] Description: Cassis flammea (Linnaeus, 1758) - flame helmet snail (abapertural view) (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores. The flame helmet snail shown above is part of the Caribbean Province: "The warm coral waters of the Caribbean stretching from northern Brazil to the Gulf of Mexico and northward adjacent to the Bahamas and Bermuda, contain a fauna of about 800 colorful species of common, shallow-water mollusks. The pink, or queen, conch and the sunrise tellin are typical." [info. from museum signage] Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Cassidae Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed/unspecified More info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassis_flammea. Date: 4 January 2016, 11:50. Source: Cassis flammea (flame helmet snail). Author: James St. John.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (animals)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Gastropoda (snails)
- Littorinimorpha
- Tonnoidea
- Cassidae (helmet shells)
- Cassis
- Cassis flammea (flame helmet)
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