Nassarius deshayesianus

Nassarius deshayesianus
Shell of Nassarius deshayesianus (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Nassariidae
Subfamily: Nassariinae
Genus: Nassarius
Species:
N. deshayesianus
Binomial name
Nassarius deshayesianus
(Issel, 1866)
Synonyms[1]
  • Nassa (Arcularia) obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888)
  • Nassa (Phrontis) obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888)
  • Nassa (Phrontis) zailensis G. B. Sowerby III, 1894
  • Nassa (Phrontis) zailensis var. andamanica Melvill & Sykes, 1899
  • Nassa deshayesiana Issel, 1866
  • Nassa obockensis (Jousseaume, 1888)
  • Nassa zailensis G.B. Sowerby III, 1894
  • Nassa zailensis var. andamanica Melvill & Sykes, 1898
  • Nassarius (Niotha) deshayesianus (Issel, 1866)
  • Nassarius (Phrontis) deshayesianus (Issel, 1866)
  • Phrontis obockensis Jousseaume, 1888

Nassarius deshayesianus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Nassariidae, the nassa mud snails (USA) or dog whelks (UK).[1] {Nassariius deshayesinus} are found in warm sampling areas. Moreover, the rate of metabolism species will decline if salinity is increased by up to 41 psu (INIOAS,2017). To add on, salinity is the limiting factor of the distribution of aquatic organism (Issel, 1866), and it influence on the physiological processes is like hemolymph osmolarity and the water content in the tissue can lead to death in most aquatic organism in the phylum of [Nassariidae] (Xiao et al, 2014).

Description

The shell grows to a length of 15 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.

References

  1. ^ a b Nassarius deshayesianus. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 October 2012.
  • Sowerby, G.B., III. (1894). Descriptions of four new shells from the Persian Gulf and Bay of Zaila. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1(4): 160–161, pl. 12.
  • Melvill, J.C. & Sykes, E.R. (1899). Notes on a third collection of marine shells from the Andaman Islands, with descriptions of three new species of Mitra. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 3: 220–229.
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

Rumahlatu, D., & Leiwakabessy, F. (2017, March 24). (PDF) biodiversity of Gastropoda in the coastal waters of Ambon Island, Indonesia. Biodiversity of gastropoda in the coastal waters of Ambon Island, Indonesia. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315899060_Biodiversity_of_gastropoda_in_the_coastal_waters_of_ambon_island_Indonesia Yekta, F. A., Shokri, M. R., Maghsoudlou, A., & Mama, H. R. (2019, May 6). Intertidal gastropod assemblages shaped by key environmental variables across the northern Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Omanss. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maec.12545