Nassa (gastropod)

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

Nassa
a live Nassa francolina
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Nassa

Röding, 1798
Synonyms[1]

Iopas Adams, 1853

Taxonomy

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

  • Nassa Röding, 1798 for mainly muricid species with the type species : Nassa picta Röding, 1798 (= Nassa serta (Bruguière, 1798).
  • Nassa Lamarck, 1799 : established for the species Buccinum mutabile Linnaeus, 1758, which is now classified as a synonym of Nassarius Duméril, 1805 in the family Nassariidae.

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] and then to Nassarius (Sphaeronassa) Locard, 1886.[3]

Species

Species within the genus Nassa include:

Species based on Nassa Röding brought into synonymy
  • Nassa francolinus (Bruguière, 1789): synonym of Nassa francolina (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Nassa ligata Röding, 1798: synonym of Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Nassa lunata Say, 1826: synonym of Astyris lunata (Say, 1826)
  • Nassa molliana Chemnitz, 1780: synonym of Babylonia valentiana (Swainson, 1822)
  • Nassa picta Röding, 1798: synonym of Nassa serta (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Nassa rudis Roding, 1798: synonym of Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Nassa subcancellata Turton, 1932: synonym of Aesopus angustus Lussi, 2001
  • Nassa varians Dunker, 1860: synonym of Mitrella bicincta (Gould, 1860)
Species based on Nassa Lamarck brought into synonymy

References

  1. Nassa Röding, 1798. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 February 2011.
  2. Animal Base : Röding, P. F. [1798]
  3. Marshall, B.; Bouchet, P. (2016). Nassarius (Sphaeronassa). In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559615 on 2016-05-19
  4. Nassa francolina (Bruguière, 1789). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  5. Nassa serta (Bruguière, 1789). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  6. Nassa situla (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  7. Nassa tuamotuensis Houart, 1996. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  8. Nassa kraussiana Dunker. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  9. Nassa lathraia . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  10. Nassa munda . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  11. Nassa obockensis . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  12. Nassa optima Sowerby, 1903. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  13. Nassa pulla (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  14. Nassa steindachneri . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  15. Nassa stiphra . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  16. Nassa xesta . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  • Houart R. (1996) The genus Nassa Röding 1798 in the Indo-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Rapaninae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 126(1-2):51-63
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