Subgenus Nassarius (Nassarius) Dumeril, 1806

Museums

Regional Maps

• Nassarius Duméril, A.M.C. 1806. Zoologie analytique ou méthodique naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus façile à l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. Paris : Allais 343 pp. [166] [no originally included species].

  Type species:

   Buccinum arcularia Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation (by subsequent monotypy, Froriep, 1806, Duméril's analytische Zoologie: 167).
• Arcularia Link, 1807 [Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock, Abt. 2: 126; "Arcularia Fabricius, 1823" [Fortegnelse over afgange Biskop Fabriciusses efterladte Naturalier: 77, 78] is listed in nomenclators as a separate entry, but is clearly the same taxonomical concept; furthermore, Fabricius's work has been placed on the Official Index by Opinion 521].

  Type species:

   Buccinum gibbosulum Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation (Cossmann, 1901, Essais de paléoconchologie comparée, 4: 215).

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1984. Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum. Auckland, New Zealand 14: 1-356 [56]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [80]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	BUCCINOIDEA	15-Aug-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		19-Mar-2012	MODIFIED