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 :

• Dorsanum (Dorsanum) Gray, 1847

Species within the genus Dorsanum include:

• † Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931
• Dorsanum miran (Bruguière, 1789)

Species brought into synonymy 

• Dorsanum (Adinus) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 : synonym of Bullia Gray, 1833
• Dorsanum (Adinus) javanum K. Martin, 1931 represented as Dorsanum javanum K. Martin, 1931 (alternate representation)
• Dorsanum belangeri (Kiener, 1834):^[2] synonym of Bullia belangeri Kiener, 1834
• Dorsanum granulosum (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Bullia granulosa (Lamarck, 1822)
• Dorsanum gruveli Dautzenberg, 1910: synonym of Bullia gruveli (Dautzenberg, 1910)
• Dorsanum mauritianum (Gray, 1839):^[3] synonym of Bullia mauritiana Gray, 1839
• Dorsanum moniliferum (Kiener, 1834) : synonym of Buccinanops monilifer (Kiener, 1834)
• Dorsanum terebraeforme Dautzenberg, 1913: synonym of Bullia terebraeformis (Dautzenberg, 1912)

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.

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp

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