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Nassa francolinus

Nassa francolinus

Classification

Family
Muricidae

Nassa is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Rapaninae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. 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.

Distribution

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