Dorsanum
| Dorsanum | |
|---|---|
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| Five views of a shell of Dorsanum miran (Bruguiere, 1799) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Subfamily: | Dorsaninae |
| Genus: | Dorsanum Gray, 1847 |
Dorsanum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]
Species
Subgenera :
- Dorsanum (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847
Species within the genus Dorsanum include:
- Dorsanum granulosum (Lamarck, 1822)
- Dorsanum gruveli Dautzenberg, 1910
- Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931
- Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)
- Dorsanum terebraeforme Dautzenberg, 1913
- Species brought into synonymy
- Dorsanum (Adinus) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 : synonym of Bullia Gray, 1833
- Dorsanum (Adinus) javanum K. Martin, 1931 represented as Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931 (alternate representation)
- Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834):[2] synonym of Bullia belangeri Kiener, 1834
- Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839):[3] synonym of Bullia mauritiana Gray, 1839
References
- ↑ Dorsanum Gray, 1847. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 February 2011.
- ↑ Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
- ↑ Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp