Reticunassa balteata

Reticunassa balteata
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. balteatus
Binomial name
	Nassarius balteatus; (Pease, 1869)
Synonyms
	Nassa balteata Pease, 1869; Nassa paupera Gould, 1882; Nassarius pauperus (Gould, 1882);

Nassarius balteatus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[2]

Description

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar

^ Pease, W.H. (1869) Description of new species of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology, 5, 64–79.
^ ^a ^b Nassarius balteatus (Pease, 1869). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 November 2010.

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
Cernohorsky W.O. (1981). Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18:137-192. [
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Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1-356.

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