WoRMS name details

Nassa optata A. Gould, 1860

572348  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:572348)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Neogastropoda (Order)
  7. Buccinoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Nassariidae (Family)
  9. Nassariinae (Subfamily)
  10. Nassa (Genus)
  11. Nassa optata (Species)
 unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gould, A. A. (1860). Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 7: 323-336 [September 1860], 337-340 [October 1860], 382-384 [December 1860]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9249883
page(s): 331. [details] 
Type locality contained in Port Jackson  
type locality contained in Port Jackson [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nassa optata A. Gould, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572348 on 2025-04-06
Date
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2011-05-20 07:45:46Z
created
Tran, Bastien
2014-02-10 19:18:57Z
checked
Bouchet, Philippe
2021-01-17 14:10:48Z
changed
Herbert, David
2023-10-14 19:01:19Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce

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Nomenclature

original description Gould, A. A. (1860). Descriptions of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 7: 323-336 [September 1860], 337-340 [October 1860], 382-384 [December 1860]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9249883
page(s): 331. [details] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy 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. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   


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