Reticunassa balteata

Reticunassa balteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[2]

Reticunassa balteata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Genus: Reticunassa
Species:
R. balteata
Binomial name
Reticunassa balteata
(Pease, 1869) [1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Nassa (Hima) balteata Pease, 1869
  • Nassa balteata Pease, 1869 (invalid: junior homonym of Nassa balteata Lischke, 1869)
  • Nassarius balteatus (Pease, 1869)

This is considered a taxon inquirendum.

Description

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and the Marshall Islands

References

  1. Pease, W.H. (1869) Description of new species of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology, 5, 64–79.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Reticunassa balteata (Pease, 1869). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=992193 on 2021-09-04
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • 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. [
  • Sheppard, A (1984). The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis of its broad distribution patterns. Coral Reefs 3: 43–50.
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1–356.


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