''Scalptia nassa'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Cancellariidae
Cancellariidae, common name the nutmeg snails or nutmeg shells, are a family of small to medium-large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Neogastropoda. Some of the shells of the species in this family resemble a nutmeg seed.
Di ...
, the nutmeg snails.
Description
The size of an adult shell varies between 12 mm and 22 mm.
Distribution
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along
East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territories make up Eastern Africa:
Due to the historical ...
and in the Pacific Ocean along the
Philippines.
References
* MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). ''A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique''. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
* Petit, R.E. & Harasewych, M.G. (2005) ''Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea'' Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)- 2nd edition. Zootaxa, 1102, 3–161. NIZT 682
* Hemmen J. (2007). ''Recent Cancellariidae''. Wiesbaden, 428pp
* Verhecken A. (2008)'' Cancellariidae (Neogastropoda: Cancellarioidea) from the Philippines: Description of new species, and a range extension''. Visaya 2(3): 7–17.
ublished August 2008page(s): 8
External links
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Cancellariidae
Gastropods described in 1791
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
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