Phalium [SEP] parent taxon
Phalium
Phalium, common name the bonnet shells, is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cassidae, the helmet shells, bonnet shells and their allies.
Species.
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus "Phalium" :
- "Phalium areolum"
- "Phalium bandatum"
- "Phalium bisulcatum"
- "Phalium decipiens"
- "Phalium faurotis"
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Since 1778, this taxon has been recombined numerous times into different genera and subgenera. Nearly a century after Born's description, in 1877, the Swedish naturalist Otto Andreas Lowson Mörch proposed a new combination and transferred this taxon to the genus "Cassis" and subgenus "Semicassis". In 1944, the American malacologist William James Clench recombined the species as "Phalium (Semicassis) granulatum", and five years later the Brazilian naturalist Frederico Lange de Morretes recombined it as "Semicassis granulatum". American malacologist Clifton S. Weaver