Lyria cassidula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Lyria cassidula
Shell of Lyria cassidula (specimen at Naturalis, Leiden)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: 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)
Subspecies
  • Lyria cassidula cassidula (Reeve, 1849)
  • Lyria cassidula pallidula Habe, 1962

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References edit

  1. ^ Lyria cassidula (Reeve, 1849). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

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