Nassa (gastropod)

Nassa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Genus: Nassa
Röding, 1798
Synonyms[1]

Iopas Adams, 1853

Nassa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

The history of the name Nassa is rather confused, because the name was allocated twice:

In the 19th and much of the 20th century, all species that were added to the genus Nassa were Nassa mud snails belonging to the family Nassariidae. After the rediscovery of Röding's catalogue of his collection Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia, the muricid genus Nassa Röding, 1798 was given priority over the genus Nassa named by Lamarck.

Nassa Lamarck was then synonymized with its oldest synonym Nassarius Duméril, 1806 by a ruling of the ICZN Op. 96, Direction 48 (21 Nov 1956) [2]

Species

Species within the genus Nassa include:

Species based on Nassa Röding brought into synonymy 
Species based on Nassa Lamarck brought into synonymy 

References

  1. 1 2 Nassa Röding, 1798.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 February 2011.
  2. Animal Base : Röding, P. F. [1798]
  3. Nassa francolina (Bruguière, 1789).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  4. Nassa serta (Bruguière, 1789).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  5. Nassa situla (Reeve, 1846).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  6. Nassa tuamotuensis Houart, 1996.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  7. Nassa kraussiana Dunker.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  8. Nassa lathraia .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  9. Nassa munda .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  10. Nassa obockensis .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  11. Nassa optima Sowerby, 1903.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  12. Nassa pulla (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  13. Nassa steindachneri .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  14. Nassa stiphra .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  15. Nassa xesta .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

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