Dorsanum

Dorsanum
Five views of a shell of Dorsanum miran (Bruguiere, 1799)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Buccinoidea
Family: Nassariidae
Subfamily: Dorsaninae
Genus: Dorsanum
Gray, 1847
Type species
Buccinum politum Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms
  • Dorsanum (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847 · accepted, alternate representation
  • Duplicata Korobkov, 1955

Dorsanum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.[1]

Species

Subgenera :

Species within the genus Dorsanum include:

Species brought into synonymy 

References

  1. Dorsanum Gray, 1847.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 February 2011.
  2. Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
  3. Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.

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