Nassarius crematus

Nassarius crematus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Subfamily:	Nassariinae
Genus:	Nassarius
Species:	N. crematus
Binomial name
*Nassarius crematus* (Hinds, 1844)
Synonyms^[1]
Nassa (Niotha) eucomista Melvill & Standen, 1897 Nassa cremata Hinds, 1844 Nassa crenata Hinds, 1844 Nassa crenata var. scutulata Mari, 1934 Nassa euglypta G.B. Sowerby III, 1914 Nassa martensi Thiele, 1925 Nassa pulcherrima Marrat, 1877 Nassa quadrata Marrat, 1880 Nassa ranida A. Adams, 1852 Nassa ravida A. Adams, 1852 Nassarius (Hinia) kueneni Koperberg, 1931 Nassarius (Hinia) kurodai Makiyama, 1927 Nassarius (Zeuxis) crematus (Hinds, 1844)

Nassarius crematus, common name the burned nassa, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 41 mm.

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania and the Mascarene Basin; in the Southwest Pacific, off the Philippines and New Guinea and off Japan.

Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1-356
Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.

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