Sassia

Genus of gastropods

For the state of Germany, see Saxony. For the woodpecker genus, see Sasia.

Sassia

Sassia semitorta shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:  | Tonnoidea
Family:  | Cymatiidae
Genus:  | Sassia
Bellardi, 1873[1]
Synonyms[2]

* † Charonia (Sassia) Bellardi, 1873
* Eutritonium (Sassia) Bellardi, 1873
* Lampusia (Sassia) Bellardi, 1873
* † Monocirsus Cossmann, 1889 ·
* Phanozesta Iredale, 1936
* Sassoia Rovereto, 1900 (unjustified emendation of Sassia)
* Triton (Sassia) Bellardi, 1873

Sassia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cymatiidae.[2]

## Species[edit]

The genus Sassia contains the following species:[2]

* † 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[edit]

1. ^ Bellardi, L. (1873). Moll. Terr. terz. Piemonte Liguria 1: 219.
2. ^ a b c Sassia Bellardi, 1873. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 December 2018.

* 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[edit]

* Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

## External links[edit]

* 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

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q7425776
* AFD: Sassia
* BOLD: 80293
* GBIF: 2300810
* iNaturalist: 353995
* IRMNG: 1096085
* ITIS: 685636
* NCBI: 315718
* NZOR: 24908a49-fedd-4d25-b6ef-256dc585421e
* WoRMS: 181011

|

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sassia.

This Cymatiidae-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template