Caesia (gastropod)

Caesia is a genus of sea snails in the subfamily Nassariinae of the family Nassariidae.

Caesia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Nassariidae
Genus:	Caesia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
Type species
Nassa perpinguis Hinds, 1844
Synonyms
Buccinum (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1882 Nassa (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Nassa (Zaphon) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Nassarius (Caesia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Nassarius (Demondia) Addicott, 1956 † Nassarius (Schizopyga) Conrad, 1856 † Nassarius (Zaphon) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 Schizopyga Conrad, 1856 ·

Description

(Described as Zaphon) The shell is bucciniform. The spire is elevated, the whorls rugose. The inner lip shows a spreading, corrugated callus. The outer lip is denticulate, lirate internally, not variced externally.

Species

• Caesia fossata (A. Gould, 1850)
• Caesia perpinguis (Hinds, 1844)
• Caesia rhinetes (S. S. Berry, 1953)

Synonyms

• Caesia japonica (A. Adams, 1852): synonym of Nassarius praematuratus (Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1960)

External links

• Conrad, T. A. (1856). Descriptions of three new genera; twenty-three new species middle Tertiary fossils from California and one from Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 8: 312-336
• Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst.
• Adams, A. (1870). On some proboscidiferous gasteropods which inhabit the seas of Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,. Series 4, 5: 418–430.
• Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353