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Nassarius speciosus (A. Adams, 1852) 
AphiaID: 225359

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Nassariidae (Family) > Nassarius (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Nassarius Duméril, 1805
Synonymised
taxa		  Alectrion plicosa (Dunker, 1846)
 Buccinum plicosum Dunker, 1846 (non Menke, 1830)
 Nassa plicosa (Dunker, 1846)
 Nassa speciosa A. Adams, 1852 (original combination)
 Nassarius (Niotha) speciosus (A. Adams, 1852)
 Nassarius plicosus (Dunker, 1846)
 Phos plicosus (Dunker, 1846)
Sources  basis of record: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

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

identification resource: Marais J.P. & Kilburn R.N. (2010) Nassariidae. Pp. 138-173, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English purple-lipped dogwhelk  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution South Coast of South Africa [details]
West Coast of South Africa [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Nassarius speciosus
Nassarius speciosus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225359
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-03-21 08:10:26Z  created  Wambiji, Nina
2007-03-05 16:26:59Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-02-21 13:37:18Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2011-07-10 06:30:38Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2012-07-04 18:46:28Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Nassarius speciosus (A. Adams, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225359 on 2013-05-20
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