Nassarius comptus

Nassarius comptus
Nassarius comptus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Subfamily: Nassariinae
Genus: Nassarius
Species: N. comptus
Binomial name
Nassarius comptus
(A. Adams, 1852)
Synonyms[1]
  • Nassa (Alectryon) flammulata Schepman, M.M., 1911
  • Nassa xesta Sturany, 1900
  • Nassarius compta

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

There is one subspecies : Nassarius comptus polita (Marrat, 1880)

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Description

The shell size varies between 15 mm and 24 mm

Distribution

This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean along Indonesia and Australia.

References

  1. ^ a b Nassarius comptus (A. Adams, 1852) .  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215733 on 31 December 2010.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius

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