''Adinassa barcai'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
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in the
family
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Nassariidae
The Nassariidae, Nassa mud snails (USA), or dog whelks (UK), are a taxonomic family of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda.
"Dog whelk" also refers to '' Nucella lapillus''.
Shell descripti ...
, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Adinassa barcai Horro, Schönherr & Rolán, 2018. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1316298 on 2020-08-27]
Description
The length of the shell attains 29.6 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off
Angola
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at depths between 40 m and 50 m.
References
* Horro J. , Schönherr C. & Rolán E. (2018). ''Two new Nassariidae (Gastropoda) from West Africa with the substitution of Adinopsis Odhner, 1923 by Adinassa n. nom.'' Conchylia. 49(3-4): 25–34.
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Endemic fauna of Angola
barcai
Gastropods described in 2018