Casmaria perryi facts for kids

Quick facts for kidsCasmaria perryi
	Casmaria perryi (Iredale, 1912) specimen held at Auckland Museum licensed under CC BY 4.0
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Cassidae
Subfamily:	Cassinae
Genus:	Casmaria
Species:	C. perryi
Binomial name
	Casmaria perryi; (Iredale, 1912)
Synonyms
	Casmaria ponderosa perryi (Iredale, 1912); Cassidea perryi Iredale, 1912;

Casmaria perryi is a species of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Cassinae, the helmet snails and bonnet snails.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 30 mm and 53 mm.

This marine species occurs off New Zealand, southeastern Australia and Easter Island.