Nassarius coronulus

Nassarius coronulus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Subfamily:	Nassariinae
Genus:	Nassarius
Species:	N. coronulus
Binomial name
	Nassarius coronulus; (A. Adams, 1852)
Synonyms
	Buccinum afrum Philippi, 1851; Nassa (Phrontis) coronula A. Adams, 1852; Nassa afra (Philippi, 1851); Nassa coronula A. Adams, 1851; Nassarius (Niotha) coronulus (A. Adams, 1852);

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Nassarius coronulus, common name the small crown dog whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

Description

The shell grows to a length of 15 mm. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and the Mascarene Basin.

Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1-356.

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