Reticunassa balteata
| Reticunassa balteata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
| Family: | Nassariidae |
| Genus: | Reticunassa |
| Species: | R. balteata
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| Binomial name | |
| Reticunassa balteata (Pease, 1869) [1]
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Reticunassa balteata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[2]
This is considered a taxon inquirendum.
Description
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Distribution
[edit]This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and the Marshall Islands
References
[edit]- ^ Pease, W.H. (1869) Description of new species of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology, 5, 64–79.
- ^ a b 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. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906302. Wikidata Q58677171.
- 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.
External links
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