Nassarius comptus | |
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Two shells of Nassarius comptus (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Nassariidae |
Genus: | Nassarius |
Species: | N. comptus |
Binomial name | |
Nassarius comptus (A. Adams, 1852) | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Nassarius comptus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks. [1]
There is one subspecies : Nassarius comptus polita (Marrat, 1880)
The shell size varies between 15 mm and 24 mm
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This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius and in the Pacific Ocean off Indonesia and Australia (Queensland)
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