''Nassodonta annesleyi'' is a species of brackish water snail, with gills and an operculum, a gastropod

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...

in the family

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 specific name ''annesleyi'' is in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel

Charles Annesley Benson Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

(1831–1906) of the 45th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry, who collected those snails.

Distribution

India.

References

Nassariidae Gastropods described in 1861 {{Nassariidae-stub