Nassarius deshayesianus

Nassarius deshayesianus
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. deshayesianus
Binomial name
	Nassarius deshayesianus; (Issel, 1866)
Synonyms
	Nassa (Arcularia) obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888); Nassa (Phrontis) obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888); Nassa deshayesiana Issel, 1866; Nassa obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888); Nassa zailensis G.B. Sowerby, 1894; Nassa zailensis var. andamanica Melvill & Sykes, 1898; Nassarius (Niotha) deshayesianus (Issel, 1866); Nassarius (Phrontis) deshayesianus (Issel, 1866); Phrontis obockensis Jousseaume, 1888;

Nassarius deshayesianus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails (USA) or dog whelks (UK).^[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 15 mm

This species is distributed in the Red Sea.

Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1-356.
Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

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