| Nassarius plicatellus | |
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| 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. plicatellus |
| Binomial name | |
| Nassarius plicatellus (Adams, 1852) |
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Nassarius plicatellus, common name the lattice dogwhelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
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The shell size varies between 15 mm and 25 mm
This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean along Angola, Namibia and South Africa