| Scalptia nassa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Cancellariidae |
| Genus: | Scalptia |
| Species: | S. nassa |
| Binomial name | |
| Scalptia nassa (Gmelin, 1791) | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
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Scalptia nassa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails. [1]
The size of an adult shell varies between 12 mm and 22 mm.
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This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along East Africa and in the Pacific Ocean along the Philippines.
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