Nassarius pullus

Nassarius pullus
Nassarius pullus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Nassarius
Species:
N. pullus
Binomial name
Nassarius pullus
Synonyms[1]
list of synonyms
  • Arcularia (Plicarcularia) thersites (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Arcularia thersites (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Buccinum pullus Linnaeus, 1758
  • Buccinum thersites Bruguière, J.G., 1789
  • Cassis pullus Röding, 1798
  • Nassa (Arcularia) thersites (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Nassa (Eione) dorsuosa A. Adams, 1852
  • Nassa (Eione) sondeiana K. Martin, 1895
  • Nassa (Eione) thersites (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Nassa dorsuosa Adams, A., 1852
  • Nassa gracilis Pease, W.H., 1868
  • Nassa pulla (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Nassa thersites (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Nassa thersites var. acypha Martens, 1886
  • Nassarius (Arcularia) thersites
  • Nassarius (Plicarcularia) pullus (Linnaeus, 1758) · accepted, alternate representation
  • Nassarius (Plicarcularia) thersites (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Nassarius acypha Martens, E.C. von, 1887
  • Nassarius thersites (Bruguière, 1789)
  • Plicarcularia thersites (Bruguière, 1789)

Nassarius pullus, commonly known as the black nassa, olive dog whelk, and ribbed dog whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 10 mm and 25 mm.

The shell is ovate and ventricose. The pointed spire is composed of six or seven whorls. These are slightly angular at their upper part, loaded with very convex longitudinal folds near the suture. These folds are less prominent, and more flattened upon the outer lip of the body whorl. It is intersected by numerous transverse striae. The upper extremity of the fold is sometimes separated by a stria which divides them superficially. The white aperture is ovate, terminated above by an emargination of the outer lip, and by a transverse ridge of the inner lip. The outer lip is thin, slightly denticulated at the base, furnished with numerous striae; internally. The columella is arcuated, covered by the inner lip, which conceals, by its expansion, a part of the body of the shell, and forms a large, white, and polished callosity. The ground color of this shell is whitish, ash or bluish, sometimes without spots or bands, at other times with two or three deeper bands which surround the whorls.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Central and East Indian Ocean off Mauritius, Madagascar and Tanzania; off East India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, the Philippines, China, and in the Western Pacific Ocean off Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands and Australia (Queensland).

References

  • Bruguière, J.G. 1789. Buccinum. Encyclopédie Méthodique ou par de matieres. Historie Naturelle des Vers et Mollusques 1: 236–285
  • Adams, A. 1852. Catalogue of the species of Nassa, a genus of Gasteropodous Mollusca, belonging to the family Buccinidae, in the Collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq., with the description of some new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1851(19): 94–112
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
  • Satyamurti, S.T. 1952. Mollusca of Krusadai Is. I. Amphineura and Gastropoda. Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, Natural History ns 1(no. 2, pt 6): 267 pp., 34 pls
  • Spry, J.F. (1961). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Gastropods. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
  • Cernohorsky, W. O. (1981). "Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent Species of the Family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 18: 137–192. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906302. Wikidata Q58677171.
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

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