Strange Casmaria (Cassis)
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12-20-2017, 03:31 AM,
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Strange Casmaria (Cassis)
I collected this shell from dredged material from the Red Sea, Saudi Arabia many years ago.
It would appear to be a specimen of Casmaria ponderosa, (Syn. Cassis ponderosa) but it has a diagonal rib with the same markings as that around the aperture. Could this be a freak or have I miss-identified it? It is 45 mm in height. |
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12-25-2017, 02:41 PM,
(This post was last modified: 12-25-2017, 02:57 PM by paul monfils.)
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RE: Strange Casmaria (Cassis)
This is Casmaria ponderosa. A misplaced varix like this can occur in any species of Cassidae. It indicates the location of the shell lip during a past period of restricted shell growth, which could be caused by a period of unusually low temperature, or a period when food was scarce, etc.
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12-27-2017, 08:22 AM,
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RE: Strange Casmaria (Cassis)
Thank you for this explanation.
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