Nassarius comptus

Nassarius comptus
Two shells of Nassarius comptus (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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]
  • Buccinum elegans Kiener, 1834
  • Nassa (Alectryon) elegans (Kiener, 1834)
  • Nassa (Alectryon) flammulata Schepman, M.M., 1911
  • Nassa bucculenta Marrat, 1880
  • Nassa cinnamomea A. Adams, 1852
  • Nassa compta A. Adams, 1852 (original combination)
  • Nassa polita Marrat, 1880
  • Nassa xesta Sturany, 1900
  • Nassarius (Zeuxis) comptus (A. Adams, 1852)
  • Nassarius compta spelling variation

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)

Description

The shell size varies between 15 mm and 24 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off Indonesia and Australia (Queensland)

References

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