| Scalptia nassa | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Cancellarioidea |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Scalptia |
| Species: | S. nassa |
| Binomial name | |
| Scalptia nassa (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Scalptia nassa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.[1]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 12 mm and 22 mm.
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.