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Nassarius optimus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903) 
AphiaID: 510883

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		  Nassa optima G. B. Sowerby III, 1903
Sources  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]

additional source: Cernohorsky W.O. (1981). Revision of the Australian and New Zealand Tertiary and Recent species of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 18:137-192. [details]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Nassarius optimus
Nassarius optimus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:510883
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-08-31 11:15:41Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Nassarius optimus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=510883 on 2013-05-24
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