Nassaria
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Nassaria is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Buccinidae
, the true whelks.
Species brought into synonymy :
* Nassaria bushii Dall, 1889 : synonym of Nassarina bushiae (Dall, 1889)
Genus
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of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
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Buccinidae
Buccinidae
Buccinidae is a very large and diverse taxonomic family of large sea snails, often known as whelks or true whelks.True whelks are mostly marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda...
, the true whelks.
Species
Species within the genus Nassaria include:- Nassaria acuminataNassaria acuminataNassaria acuminata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
(Reeve, 1881) - Nassaria acutispirata (G.B. Sowerby III, 1913)
- Nassaria amboynensis Watson, 1881
- Nassaria bitubercularis (A. Adams, 1851)
- Nassaria bombax Cernohorsky, 1981
- Nassaria callomoniNassaria callomoniNassaria callomoni is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Poppe, Tagaro & Fraussen, 2008 - Nassaria cirsiumoidesNassaria cirsiumoidesNassaria cirsiumoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2004 - Nassaria corollariaNassaria corollariaNassaria corollaria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2006 - Nassaria coromandelica E.A.Smith, 1894
- Nassaria exquisitaNassaria exquisitaNassaria exquisita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen & Poppe, 2007 - Nassaria fibulaNassaria fibulaNassaria fibula is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2008 - Nassaria gracilisNassaria gracilisNassaria gracilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Sowerby, 1902 - Nassaria gyroscopoidesNassaria gyroscopoidesNassaria gyroscopoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen & Poppe, 2007 - Nassaria incisaNassaria incisaNassaria incisa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2006 - Nassaria intactaNassaria intactaNassaria intacta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2006 - Nassaria laevior E.A. Smith, 1899
- Nassaria magnifica Lischke, 1871
- Nassaria miriamae (Dell, 1967)*
- Nassaria moosaiNassaria moosaiNassaria moosai is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2006 - Nassaria nassoides (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)
- Nassaria nebulonisNassaria nebulonisNassaria nebulonis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, Dharma & Stahlschmidt, 2009 - Nassaria okinavia (Mac Neil, 1960)
- Nassaria perlataNassaria perlataNassaria perlata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Poppe & Fraussen, 2004 - Nassaria problematica (Iredale, 1936)
- Nassaria pusilla (Röding, 1798)
- Nassaria recurva G.B. Sowerby II, 1859
- Nassaria rickardi (Ladd, 1977)
- Nassaria sinensis G.B. Sowerby, 1859
- Nassaria solida Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961
- Nassaria spinigera (Hayashi & Habe, 1965)
- Nassaria tartaNassaria tartaNassaria tarta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2006 - Nassaria teres Martens, 1902
- Nassaria termesoidesNassaria termesoidesNassaria termesoides is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2006 - Nassaria thalassomeliNassaria thalassomeliNassaria thalassomeli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen & Poppe, 2007 - Nassaria thesauraNassaria thesauraNassaria thesaura is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen & Poppe, 2007 - Nassaria turbinata (Kuroda, 1961)
- Nassaria visayensis Fraussen & Poppe, 2007
- Nassaria wallaceiNassaria wallaceiNassaria wallacei is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
Fraussen, 2006 - Nassaria wanneriNassaria wanneriNassaria wanneri is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks....
(Tesch in Wanner, 1915)
Species brought into synonymy :
* Nassaria bushii Dall, 1889 : synonym of Nassarina bushiae (Dall, 1889)
- Nassaria kampyla Watson, 1885 : synonym of Sassia kampylaSassia kampylaSassia kampyla is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ranellidae, the triton snails, triton shells or tritons....
(Watson, 1885) - Nassaria mordica Hedley, 1909 : synonym of Orania fischerianaOrania fischerianaOrania fischeriana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails....
(Tapparone-Canefri, 1882)