Nassarius Duméril 1806 (snail)

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae

Parent taxon: Nassariinae according to B. Landau and C. Marques da Silva 2010

See also Addicott 1965, Addicott 1970, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995, Ladd 1977, Ladd 1982, MacNeil 1960, Mukerjee 1939, Nielson and Valdovinos 2008, Oostingh 1935, Robba et al. 1989, Sepkoski 2002, Todd 2001, Vera-Peláez et al. 2004, Ward 1992, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Wienrich 2001, Wilson 1994, Woodring 1928 and Woodring 1964

Sister taxa: Cyclope, Demoulia, Fusus, Gussonea, Keepingia, Neoteron, Sphaeronassa, Trajana

Subtaxa: Nassaria cornelliana Nassarius (Alectrion) Nassarius (Arcularia) Nassarius (Caesia) Nassarius (Catilon) Nassarius (Demondia) Nassarius (Hima) Nassarius (Hinia) Nassarius (Mirua) Nassarius (Nanarius) Nassarius (Nassarius) Nassarius (Niotha) Nassarius (Plicarcularia) Nassarius (Schizopyga) Nassarius (Tritiaria) Nassarius (Tritonella) Nassarius (Uzita) Nassarius (Zeuxis) Nassarius albescens Nassarius antillarum Nassarius bellulus Nassarius burchardi Nassarius cabrierensis Nassarius chowanensis Nassarius coronatus Nassarius crematus Nassarius dorsatus Nassarius gayi Nassarius gigantulus Nassarius glans Nassarius granulatus Nassarius hylus Nassarius incrassatus Nassarius janschloegli Nassarius karinae Nassarius kochianus Nassarius luridus Nassarius nodicinctus Nassarius pagodus Nassarius papillosus Nassarius pauperus Nassarius persicus Nassarius prysmaticus Nassarius pullus Nassarius pygmaeus Nassarius reductus Nassarius repititi Nassarius salina Nassarius schizopyga Nassarius scopularcus Nassarius sopora Nassarius splendidulus Nassarius taeniolatus Nassarius thielei Nassarius trinitatensis Nassarius trivittatoides Nassarius vibex

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Ecology: slow-moving semi-infaunal carnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), Bermuda (4), Brazil (6), Cayman Islands (3), Chile (6), Costa Rica (5), Djibouti (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Ecuador (5), Eritrea (2), Fiji (1), France (1), French Polynesia (1), Guam (1), Iceland (6), India (1), Indonesia (1), Ireland (1), Italy (7), Jamaica (1), Japan (10), the Marshall Islands (1), Mayotte (4), Mexico (16), Morocco (12), Namibia (2), the Netherlands (3), Panama (4), Peru (8), the Philippines (1), Portugal (2), Saudi Arabia (2), the Seychelles (3), South Africa (3), Spain (7), Sudan (1), Taiwan (12), Thailand (4), the United Kingdom (4), United States (214: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina), Vanuatu (7), Venezuela (3), Yemen (2)

• Blancan of United States (2: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Guam (1), Malaysia (6), South Africa (1), United States (14: California, Florida, Washington)

• Pliocene of Australia (2), Belgium (3), Chile (3), Costa Rica (16), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (4), Ecuador (11), Fiji (6), Greece (3), Iceland (2), India (1), Indonesia (17), Iran (1), Italy (9), Jamaica (4), Japan (16), Mexico (2), Pakistan (3), Panama (15), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (4), the Philippines (5), South Africa (5), Spain (6), Trinidad and Tobago (10), the United Kingdom (6), United States (60: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Virginia), Vanuatu (3), Venezuela (7)

• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (2), Japan (1), United States (1: California)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Australia (7), Austria (4), Belgium (7), Brazil (2), Chile (3), Colombia (3), Denmark (1), the Dominican Republic (9), Ecuador (5), Fiji (1), France (2), Germany (44), Greece (2), India (4), Indonesia (18), Italy (11), Japan (25), Kazakhstan (1), the Marshall Islands (4), Mexico (2), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (10), Pakistan (1), Palau (1), Panama (57), Peru (2), the Philippines (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (5), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Trinidad and Tobago (14), Turkey (3), Ukraine (2), United States (94: California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Virginia), Venezuela (2)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), Hungary (4), Japan (4), United States (39: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi)

• Eocene of Colombia (1), Indonesia (2), Mexico (1), Panama (3), Peru (3), United States (37: Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)

• Paleocene of Mexico (1), United States (12: Alabama, Louisiana, Texas)

Total: 1109 collections including 1905 occurrences

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