Nassa situla

Nassa situla
Nassa situla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Nassa
Species: N. situla
Binomial name
Nassa situla
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
  • Buccinum situlum Reeve, 1846
  • Pusio kossmanni Pagenstecher, 1877
  • Pusio savignyi Pagenstecher, A., 1877

Nassa situla is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]

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Description

The shell grows to a length of 35 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Gulf of Oman.

References

  1. ^ a b Nassa situla (Reeve, 1846).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397006 on 31 December 2010.
  • Houart R. (1996) The genus Nassa Röding 1798 in the Indo-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Rapaninae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 126(1-2):51-63

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