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Nassa tuamotuensis Houart, 1996 
AphiaID: 397008

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Rapaninae (Subfamily) > Nassa (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Species
Parent Nassa Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Purpura francolinus Kiener, 1835 (Invalid: junior secondary homonym of Nassa francolina (Bruguiere, 1789); Nassa tuamotuensis is a replacement name)
Sources  original description: Houart R. (1996) The genus Nassa Röding 1798 in the Indo-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Rapaninae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde 126(1-2): 51-63. [30 December 1996]
page(s): 56 [details]


additional source: Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013], available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.014 [details]

Environment marine
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397008
Taxonomic
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2009-06-02 18:31:36Z  created  Houart, Roland
  
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  Citation: Houart, R. (2013). Nassa tuamotuensis Houart, 1996. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397008 on 2013-05-20
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