Nassarius tiarula | |
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Nassarius tiarula | |
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. tiarula |
Binomial name | |
Nassarius tiarula (Kiener, 1841) |
Nassarius tiarula, common name the western mud nassa, is a species of small sea snail with gills and an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
These snails are scavengers.